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The demolition in Yarza. Photo by 'Aref Daraghmeh, B'Tselem, 29 Sept. 2020
Today, Tuesday, September 29, 2020, at around 4:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military jeep escort, a bulldozer and a crane truck to the Palestinian community of Khirbet Jib’it in Ramallah District. The forces demolished two cisterns and confiscated two water containers belonging to an extended family from the community. .
Later this morning, at around 9:00, Civil Administration personnel came with a military jeep escort and two bulldozers to Khirbet Yarza in the northern Jordan Valley and demolished the homes of two families, numbering 10 people in total, including six minors. Last week, on 21 September 2020, the Civil Administration delivered the families demolition orders by power of Military Order 1797. Ahead of the demolition, the families took their belongings out of their homes and dismantled their roofs. The forces also delivered one of the families a demolition order for a tent used for storage, and confiscated the vehicles of a Palestinian TV crew documenting the demolition.
Last Sunday, 27 September 2020, at around 12:00 P.M., soldiers arrived at Khirbet ‘Atuf in the northern Jordan valley and confiscated a van and portable welding machine owned by a resident of al-Far’ah, which laborers were using to upgrade the community’s water network on behalf of the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees (PARC). The forces detained the laborers and drove them to the Sa’ura military camp, where they were held for several hours and released.
On Thursday, 24 September 2020, at around 9:00 A.M., a resident of Nab’ al-Ghazal , a community in the al-Farisiyah area, found an expropriation order and maps lying on a rock at the entrance to the community, apparently placed there by Civil Administration officials. According to the order, 1,600 square meters of land within the community that belong to a resident of Tubas will be expropriated due to the expansion of Israeli water facilities nearby. These facilities provide water only to settlers and the military, and not to Palestinian residents of the area.
