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
25 November 2020
Jordan Valley:
On Wednesday, 25 November 2020, at around 9:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military jeep escort, police officers, two bulldozers and a truck crane at the village of Fayasil a-Tahta in the northern Jordan Valley. The forces dismantled and confiscated the foundations of two shacks intended to house an extended family of seven, including two children. The shacks were donated to the family by a humanitarian aid organization after the Civil Administration demolished their homes last September.
Later, the forces demolished two shacks that housed a family of ten, four of them children, as well as a kitchen, a cement outhouse, and two metal-plated tin-roofed shacks that the family used to raise livestock. The forces also destroyed a fence and disconnected the shacks’ electricity grid.
In addition, the forces demolished ten shacks that were used by two families and included a toilet, fodder storage, stables, a chicken coop and tabun ovens. They also destroyed wheat and almond husks that were used as livestock fodder.
At around midday, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military jeep escort and a crane truck at the community of Tal a-Smadi, northwest of the village of al-Jiftlik in the Jordan Valley. The forces dismantled and confiscated a shack that was home to a couple, as well as an outhouse and a water container donated to them by a humanitarian aid organization after the forces demolished the same structures on 21 October 2020.
Masafer Yatta, South Hebron Hills:
The same day, around 9:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with Border Police officers at the community of Khirbet a-Rakeez in the Masafer Yatta area of the South Hebron Hills and demolished two structures that were home to a family of six, including three children. They also demolished a structure used for agriculture that belonged to another family in the community. The forces continued south to Khirbet a-Sarurah, where they demolished an outhouse owned by a community resident. They then continued further south to the community of Khirbet Khallet a-Dabe’, where they demolished two structures under construction intended for two families, numbering 11 people in total, including seven children, and another structure that contained a toilet and a kitchen.
From there, they went to the community of Mughayir al-‘Abid, where they demolished two structures used for agriculture that belonged to a community resident. The forces also cut and destroyed a two-kilometer water line servicing the communities of al-Fakhit, a-Safai, Mughayir al-‘Abid and a-Taban. The water line, donated by humanitarian organizations, cost almost 100,000 EUR to install. The Civil Administration already destroyed Masafer Yatta’s main water supply pipeline in February 2019, but it has since been restored. In October 2020, the Civil Administration destroyed a local pipeline servicing the communities of Mughayir al-‘Abid and Khirbet al-Majaz.
Finally, the forces arrived at the community of Khirbet Jenbah, where they destroyed a plastic water container a community resident placed on his farmland to water his olive grove. In order to make their way to the container, the forces uprooted four olive trees and demolished a wire fence around the plot. Some of the demolished structures were donated to the communities by humanitarian aid organizations.
The same day, Israel demolished a house under construction in a-Lubban a-Gharbiyah, Ramallah District
At around 6:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with soldiers, police officers and a bulldozer at the village of a-Lubban a-Gharbiyah in Ramallah District. The forces demolished the foundation of a structure under construction (a floor and posts) intended for a family of eight, including six children. They also demolished a shack owned by another resident that was used for storage. The demolitions were carried out by power of Military Order 1797.
