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.
31 July 2023
Kh. Emneizal
On Monday, 31 July 2023, in the afternoon, soldiers arrived at the village of Kh. Emneizal in the South Hebron Hills and confiscated a tractor used by a local resident to dig up land to lay water infrastructure on the northern side of the village. The soldiers ordered the driver to drive the tractor to a military base that was established some 300 meters east of the village.
31 July 2023
Kh. Wadi Ejheish
On Monday, 31 July 2023, at around 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort, a bulldozer and a digger, at the community of Khirbet Wadi Ejheish, South Hebron Hills, removed the contents of a dwelling made of steel sheets, took it apart and confiscated it.
26 July 2023
al-Hijrah
On Wednesday morning, 26 July 2023, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort, a bulldozer and a cement mixer at the Palestinian village of al-Hijrah, south of Hebron. The forces poured concrete into four water wells and destroyed a roughly 20-meter-long pipe used to irrigate crops, damaging the crops themselves along the way.As they were working on destroying the pipe, the forces fired a sponge bullet at a Palestinian who approached the area, injuring him lightly in the back. He received treatment on site.
26 July 2023
Badu al-Mu’arrajat east (Mleihat)
On Wednesday, 26 July 2023, at around 8:00 P.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and two crane trucks at the Badu al-Ka’abneh School in the community of al-Ka’abneh Badu a-Mu’arrajat, east of Jericho. The forces confiscated 16 pallets with about 1,500 blocks intended for building a 500-meter fence around the school. Two days earlier, on 24 July 2023, Civil Administration personnel arrived at the community and instructed the school administration to stop work on the construction of the fence.
24 July 2023
Kh. Humsah a-Tahta
On Monday, 24 July 2023, at around 9:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and a bulldozer at Kh. Humsah a-Tahta in the northern Jordan Valley. The forces demolished the seasonal home of a family of seven, including five minors. The family lives in the town of Tammun part of the year.
20 July 2023
Kh. Yarza, Kh. Humsah al-Foqa
On Thursday, 20 July 2023, at around 11:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel and a soldier arrived at Khirbet Yarza in the northern Jordan Valley and confiscated a tractor and a car belonging to the Abu Daher family, claiming they had been brought into Firing Zone 901. The two drove the vehicles to a military base near Khirbet Samrah. From there, the two went to Khirbet Humsah al-Foqa, confiscated two tractors belonging to the Abu al-Kabash family that were parked near the family home, claiming they had been brought into Firing Zone 903. The two ordered the family members to drive the tractors to a nearby military base.
18 July 2023
Birin
On Tuesday, 18 July 2023, in the early afternoon, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a Border Police escort and two bulldozers at Khirbet Birin, northeast of the town of Yatta. The forces demolished a concrete and barbed wire fence around farmland and uprooted about 100 olive and almond trees, as wells as grapevines.
17 July 2023
al-Muntar
On Monday, 17 July 2023, at around 7:00 A.M., Israeli Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and bulldozer to the community of al-Muntar, al-Quds District, south-east of the town of al-‘Eizariyah. Israeli forces demolished the homes of three families, leaving 13 people homeless, including seven minors, damaging a livestock pen and vandalizing a water tank. In addition, the forces demolished a house under construction intended for a member of the community after his marriage and parts of three additional houses. In 2019, settlers established the “Tzon Kedar Farm” adjacent to the community.
16 July 2023
Widady a-Tahta
On Sunday, 16 July 2023, members of the Widady a -Tahta community were forced to abandon their place of residence in fear for their lives due to state-backed settler violence and other abuses carried out by the Israeli authorities. Residents of the community – who belong to the extended Abu ‘Awad family and number 20 people in total, including 12 minors – loaded all their belongings onto trucks and left the family’s compound, where they lived for 50 years. Khirbet Widady consisted of two communities until now, Khirbet Widady a-Tahta and Khirbet Widaday a-Foqa, where five families numbering 22 people in total, including 13 minors, remain. These communities – like all the communities Israel is working to expel – have never been connected to the water and electricity grids. They have relied on water stored in cisterns and, in recent years, acquired solar panels that provide limited electricity. Approximately two years ago, Israeli settlers built an outpost roughly 500 meters away from the Abu-‘Awad family homes in Widady a-Tahta, and ever since – with the help of Israeli soldiers – have tried to prevent them from grazing their flock in the pasturelands surrounding their homes, by way of – among other things – flying drones that scare the sheep and disperse them. At the end of 2022, B’Tselem documented two settler attacks on the family’s homes (24 December 2022; 31 December 2022). In March 2023, B’Tselem documented two more attacks, one in the presence of an Israeli soldier (4 March 2023; 11 March 2023). Additionally, about a year ago, the Civil Administration issued demolition orders for all structures in the compound, which consist of three homes and one livestock enclosure. On Tuesday, 27 June 2023, at approximately 4:00 P.M., two Israeli settlers arrived at the community and threatened Salah Abu ‘Awad (27) with handguns while he was grazing his flock near his home. Abu ‘Awad fled, leaving the flock behind, and watched from a distance as the settlers led his sheep toward Route 60. He called other family members for help, and when the settlers saw them, they left the flock and went toward their outpost. The family brought the flock back to their community. When Abu ‘Awad reported the incident to the police, the officers claimed they could not assist him because the community was living on leased land that did not belong to its residents. Immediately following the incident and in the wake of the police’s response, the Abu ‘Awad family decided that remaining at the site put their lives at risk and began preparations to leave. Read more...
12 July 2023
Kh. Wadi Tiran
On Wednesday, 12 July 2023, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and a digger at the community of Khirbet a-Tiran, south of the town of a-Dhahiriyah. The forces razed a roughly one-kilometer dirt road connecting the community to its agricultural lands. The community is home to three families whose homes are not connected to the water or power grids.
12 July 2023
al-Baq'ah (Hebron)
On Wednesday, 12 July 2023, at around 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and a bulldozer to the village of al-Baq’ah, Hebron District, and destroyed a water cistern used by six families numbering a total of 30 people for domestic consumption and irrigation.
