19 December 2022 Jericho
On Monday, 19 December 2022, at around 9:30 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort and two bulldozers at the al-Matar area in eastern Jericho. The forces demolished a vacation home with two swimming pools owned by a family from East Jerusalem and uprooted decorative trees planted around it, and another vacation home, under construction, owned by a family from Jericho.
17 December 2022 Kh. 'Ein al-Hilweh
On Saturday, 17 December 2022, at around 8:00 A.M., a settler arrived in a vehicle belonging to the Jordan Valley settlement regional council to an agricultural area located about 100 meters south of the community of Kh. ‘Ein al-Hilweh in the northern Jordan Valley and ordered Palestinian farmers who were plowing to stop working. The settler called the Israeli authorities and soldiers, Border Police and Israel Police officers arrived in three vehicles. They announced the tractor would be confiscated and detained its owner for about three hours. The sons of the tractor owner arrived and one of them insisted on driving the tractor to wherever the forces told him to take it. A Border Police officer initially tried to handcuff him, but eventually, the forces told the son to drive the tractor to the settlement of Mehola and leave it there.
14 December 2022 al-Jiftlik
On Monday, 13 Dec. 2022, at around 6:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort, four bulldozers and two diggers at the village of al-Jiftlik in the central Jordan Valley. The forces demolished the home of a family of 12, incl. 4 minors, leaving them homeless, and a two-story building under construction that had 2 apartments and belonged to the same family. They then demolished the home of a family of 7, incl. 3 minors, and a structure under construction belonging to another resident. The forces also demolished 5 shacks, 2 tents and 2 livestock pens, and vandalized feeding troughs in a farm that provides the livelihood of 2 families numbering 14 people in total.
12 December 2022 Bardalah
On Monday, 12 December 2022, at around 1:00 P.M., soldiers arrived in a military vehicle in the area of a-Tabayek, north of the village of Bardalah in the northern Jordan Valley. The soldiers ordered farmers who were busy plowing to stop working, claiming it was a closed military zone. The soldiers confiscated two tractors and towed them to the Bet Shean checkpoint.
8 December 2022 Wadi a-Siq
On Thursday, 8 December 2022, at around 6:45 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a Border Police escort, a bulldozer and two crane trucks to the community of Wadi a-Siq east of Ramallah. The forces dismantled and confiscated two shacks and two tents that were home to four families numbering 27 people in total, including 16 minors, leaving them homeless. The forces also demolished two shacks and two tents the families used as livestock pens. The Civil Administration previously demolished the home of one of the families on 3 October 2022.
6 December 2022 Birin, Kh. a-Safai al-Foqa
On Tuesday, 6 December 2022, at around 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort and a digger at the community of Birin, located northeast of the town of Yatta in Hebron District, and uprooted 55 eight-year-old olive trees in a grove belonging to a Palestinian family from Hebron, claiming it was on state land. The forces then moved on to the community of khirbet a-Safai al-Foqa, which is located in Masafer Yatta inside the area the military declared Firing Zone 918. The forces dismantled and confiscated two tents used as classrooms for the community’s schoolchildren since Israel demolished their school two weeks earlier.
3 December 2022 al-Hadidiyah
On Saturday, 3 Dec. 2022, at around 4:00 P.M., a representative of the Jordan Valley regional settlement council came with a military escort to an agricultural plot northeast of the village of al-Hadidiyah and ordered Palestinian farmers who were plowing the land to stop. He also demanded that a village resident who was driving a tractor follow him and the soldiers. When the convoy neared Khallet Makhul, residents blocked the way and entered into an argument with the soldiers that lasted about an hour. The vehicles then continued on their way, with the resident driving the tractor to a nearby military base, where it was confiscated on the grounds it had been used to work land in a closed military zone.
1 December 2022 Kh. Tatrit ('Arab al-Freijat)
On Thursday, 1 December 2022, at around 7:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort and two bulldozers to the community of Khirbet Tatrit (‘Arab al-Fureijat) in the southwest of Hebron District. The forces demolished the home of a newlywed couple who were left homeless and another home under construction set to house a family of eight.
30 November 2022 Lifjim
On Wednesday, 30 Nov. 2022, at around 8:30 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a Border Police escort to the community of Lifjim (al-Fajam), which lies east of the village of ‘Aqraba in Nablus District. The forces demolished three shacks, leaving three families numbering 19 people in total, 9 of them minors, homeless. They also demolished two shacks and a tent that were used as livestock enclosures and a livestock pen belonging to the same families, as well as an agricultural storage shed and three livestock pens belonging to another family and an agricultural structure belonging to a resident of the village of a-Zawiyah.
29 November 2022 'Ein a-Duyuk a-Tahta
On Tuesday, 29 Nov. 2022, at around 7:30 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military and Border Police escort and a bulldozer to the area of Isteih in the village of ‘Ein a-Duyuk a-Tahta, which lies in the southern Jordan Valley. The forces demolished two homes by power of Military Order 1797, leaving a young couple and a family of five, three of them minors, homeless.
28 November 2022 Hebron, Birin
On Monday, 28 November 2022, at around 12:00 P.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military and Border Police escort, three diggers and a bulldozer to the neighborhood of Khallet al-‘Eidah in eastern Hebron. The forces demolished the homes of two families numbering 16 people in total, 12 of them minors. From there, they continued to the area of Wadi al-A’war, which lies near the community of Birin, northeast of the town of Yatta, and demolished an agricultural structure belonging to a family from Hebron.
23 November 2022 Kh. a-Safai al-Foqa
This morning, 23 November 2022, at around 9:00 A.M., Israel demolished a primary school built in the Palestinian community of Khirbet a-Safai al-Foqa in Masafer Yatta, in the part of the South Hebron Hills the military declared Firing Zone 918. The forces removed the tables and chairs from the classrooms and confiscated them. The demolition was greenlighted by Supreme Court Justice Isaac Amit, who cancelled the temporary order he issued yesterday freezing the demolition. Read more
18 October 2020
This morning, 19 October 2020, at around 7:30 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a Border Police escort, a bulldozer and a digger to the community of Khirbet a-Rakeez in the Masafer Yatta area of the South Hebron Hills. The forces confiscated a tent that housed a family of five, including three children. The tent was donated to the family by the a-Tuwani village council after Israel demolished their home on 30 September 2020.
From there, the forces continued south to the community of Khirbet al-Fakhit and demolished a tin-roofed cinderblock structure that housed a family of four, including one child. The home was built with international humanitarian aid. Before the forces left, they destroyed a livestock pen and a storage tent owned by the same family.
The forces continued to an area located between Khirbet Khallet a-Dabe’ and Khirbet al-Mufaqarah, where they cut a 2.5-kilometer stretch of piping used to supply water to Masafer Yatta communities.
