23 November 2025
Kh. a-Ras al-Ahmar
On Sunday, 23 November 2025, at around 8:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and a digger at Khirbet a-Ras al-Ahmar in the northern Jordan Valley. The forces demolished a shack used as a barn and a shed for agricultural equipment.
6 April 2025
Kh. a-Ras al-Ahmar
On Sunday, 6 April 2025, at around 9:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a bulldozer and trucks, escorted by soldiers and members of the Jordan Valley Settlement Council, to the area of Ras al-Ahmar in the Jordan Valley. The forces dismantled and confiscated eight residential tents, leaving four families – a total of 35 people, 15 of them minors – without shelter. The families had relocated to the area after settler violence drove them out of their homes in Khirbet Samrah about 20 days earlier. The forces also demolished a livestock enclosure and confiscated eight livestock pens, three water tanks, two generators, two solar panels, and two carts used for carrying goods.
1 August 2023
Kh. a-Ras al-Ahmar
On Tuesday, 15 August 2023, at around 8:00 A.M., soldiers arrived in a military jeep and D9 bulldozer at the community of Ras al-Ahmar in the northern Jordan Valley and dug a 500-meter trench east of the community. The soldiers destroyed dozens of dunams (a dunam equals 1000 square meters) of farmland owned by the residents of the villages of Tubas and Tammun, as well as dirt roads that enabled travel between the communities in the area and farmland.
22 January 2023
Kh. a-Ras al-Ahmar
On Sunday, 22 January 2023, at around 3:00 P.M., soldiers arrived at Khirbet a-Ras al-Ahmar in the northern Jordan Valley in a military vehicle and tried to confiscate a tractor used for plowing. The soldiers chased the tractor from the fields all the way to the office of the company it belongs to, inside the community, where they got into an argument with the farmers and the company owners. The soldiers left about an hour later without the tractor.
15 January 2023
Kh. a-Ras al-Ahmar
On Sunday afternoon, 15 January 2023, Israeli soldiers returned to the Jordan Valley with a bulldozer and blocked two more rural access roads, south of the Palestinian community of Khirbet a-Ras al-Ahmar.
12 January 2023
Kh. 'Atuf, Kh. a-Ras al-Ahmar
On Thursday, 12 January 2023, at around 1:00 P.M., Israeli soldiers came to the northern Jordan Valley with a bulldozer and built dirt mounds to block five roads used by communities east of Khirbet ‘Atuf and Khirbet a-Ras al-Ahmar to access farmlands in the area.
11 January 2023
Kh. a-Ras al-Ahmar
On Wednesday, 11 January 2023, at around 4:00 P.M., representatives of the Jordan Valley regional settlement council came to the area of Khirbet a-Ras al-Ahmar in the northern Jordan Valley and summoned soldiers, who confiscated a tractor with a wagon and detained the owner for about an owner on the pretext that he was in a closed military zone. The soldiers took the tractor to a nearby military camp.
6 September 2022
Kh. a-Ras al-Ahmar
On Tuesday, 6 September 2022, at around 2:00 P.M., soldiers arrived in jeeps at farmland in the area of Khirbet a-Ras al-Ahmar in the northern Jordan Valley and chased tractors working there. The soldiers detained one of the drivers for about half an hour. They then confiscated his tractor, claiming it was in a “closed military zone”, and ordered him to drive it to the Beka’ot military camp.
15 August 2022
Kh. a-Ras al-Ahmar
On Monday, 15 August 2022, at around 7:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and three crane trucks at a banana grove spanning about eight dunams southeast of the community of Khirbet Ras al-Ahmar in the Jordan Valley. The forces confiscated about 300 metal poles intended to support a net that would protect the grove and cut an irrigation pipe. At the beginning of the month, Jordan Valley Settlement council personnel and the military confiscated a tractor and a forklift used to erect the poles.
1 August 2022
Kh. a-Ras al-Ahmar
On 1 August 2022, at around 7:00 A.M., Jordan Valley Settlement Council personnel blocked the path of a forklift and a tractor with a trailer cart used to erect poles and spread nets in a banana grove east of the community of Khirbet Ras al-Ahmar. The council personnel summoned soldiers to the scene, who detained the driver and the owner of the vehicles for about six hours and then confiscated the vehicles, put them on a tow truck and led them to a military camp in the area.
15 December 2021
خ. الراس الأحمر, عقابة, خلة الفرن, خ. المفقرة, الركيز, Kh. a-Ras al-Ahmar, al-'Aqabah, Khalet al-Furn, Kh. al-Mufaqarah, a-Rakeez, Kh. a-Ras al-Ahmar, 'Aqqabah, Khalet al-Furn, Kh. al-Mufaqarah, a-Rakeez
On Wednesday, 1 December 2021, the Civil Administration confiscated six tractors, four water containers, and five private vehicles in the Khirbet Ras al-Ahmar area in the northern Jordan Valley. On Sunday, 5 December 2021, on the first day of military training in the northern Jordan Valley, the Civil Administration confiscated a tractor used by a resident of ‘Aqaba to perform agricultural work in the area. On Monday, 14 December 2021, at 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort and equipped with two bulldozers to the land of the community of Khalet al-Furn in the South Hebron Hills. The forces raked agricultural land in a 4-dunam area, and demolished a cistern owned by a family from East Jerusalem by the power of Military Order 1797. On Wednesday, 15 December 2021, Mahmoud Hamamdeh, a farmer from Khirbet al-Mufaqarah, plowed his plot of land in the Khirbet a-Rakeez area about a kilometer east of which the settlement of Avigail was established. A settler who noticed the work summoned the Civil Administration, who came to the scene accompanied by a military jeep and confiscated the tractor and a digger on the pretext that it was used for work on state land. On Thursday, 16 December 2021, farmer Sa’id ‘Awad from the community of Um Lasafa plowed his land near the community of She’b al-Batem in the South Hebron Hills using a tractor and a digger. The work was coordinated with the Civil Administration (C.A.), and one of its representatives was present on the ground along with soldiers who accompanied him. At around 11:00 A.M., About six settlers came to the land. The settlers spoke with the representative of the C.A., and after a few minutes, the latter forbade the farmer to plow all his lands and ordered him to settle for part of it. The farmer moved to a nearby plow he owns, where the military does not require him to coordinate his work, and began plowing it. However, the C.A. representative and the soldiers then confiscated the tractor and the plow he used on the pretext that it was state land.
1 December 2021
خ. الراس الأحمر, Kh. a-Ras al-Ahmar, Kh. a-Ras al-Ahmar
On Wednesday, 1 December 2021, at around 4:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel accompanied by soldiers and equipped with four crane trucks arrived at Khirbet Ras al-Ahmar in the northern Jordan Valley. The forces confiscated six tractors, three with trailers, four water trailers and five cars, claiming they were located in Firing Zone 901.