On Monday, 14 November 2022, at around 7:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military and Border Police escort and a bulldozer to the neighborhood of a-Taybah in the town of Tarqumya. The forces demolished a shack that was home to a family of five, including three minors, and vandalized three solar panels and four generators belonging to the same family. They also demolished a shack that was home to a young couple, and vandalized six water containers and three solar panels the couple owns. In addition, the forces demolished six tents that farmers use for resting, and confiscated a truck that was transporting tents donated to the farmers by the Palestinian Authority’s National Commission against the Wall and the Settlements.
On Sunday, 13 Nov. 2022, at around 7:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort and a bulldozer to the community of ‘Arab al-‘Anani wa al-Jabour, which lies near the village of Deir Ballut in Salfit District. The forces demolished three residential tents and left three families numbering 15 people in total, seven of them minors, homeless. They also demolished three livestock enclosures belonging to the same families. The community of ‘Arab al-‘Anani wa al-Jabour consists of seven families numbering 35 people in total, 17 of them minors. The residents live permanently on the site, in tents, and live off shepherding. Their children attend school at Deir Ballut.
On Wednesday, 9 November 2022, at around 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came to the community of Khallet al-Furn in the South Hebron Hills and confiscated three containers that a family of five used for agriculture. About two hours later, the forces went to the area between Khallet al-Furn and the community of Birin, where they dismantled and confiscated a tin roof that a farmer had added to an old agricultural structure on his land.
On Thursday, 3 November 2022, at around 8:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military and Border Police escort and a bulldozer to the community of ‘Arab al-Fureijat in Hebron District. The forces demolished an outhouse, a fence around a plot of land and a water container, all belonging to a family of 13. They also demolished a livestock enclosure belonging to a Palestinian citizen of Israel.
On Thursday, 27 October 2022, at around 9:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived at the community of Khirbet Humsah al-Foqa in the northern Jordan Valley with a military escort. The residents were forced to relocate after Israel demolished their community in July 2021. The forces handed six families with a total of 41 members, including 27 minors, orders to evacuate their homes for four days, on 1-3 November and on 9 November, between the hours of 6:00 A.M. and 4:00 P.M., to make way for military training near their homes. Military training in the communities’ territory is a deliberate harassment of their residents in an attempt to drive them out of the area. The last evacuation of community residents on the pretext of training occurred in July 2022. The training eventually took place at a large distance from the community, and since only the men who take care of the flock remain in the community during this season, they just removed the flock from it.
On 31 October 2022, at around 8:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came to the village of al-Baq’ah, Hebron District, with a military and Border Police escort. The forces demolished a three-story building, still under construction, set to house three families with a total of 30 members, including 20 minors. The forces then continued south, to the community of Um Lasafa, where they demolished a house that was still under construction and was to be the future home of a family of 13, including three minors.
After the Civil Administration demolished a home under construction in Bani Na'im, the forces carried on to the community of al-Jawaya, southeast of the town of Yatta in the South Hebron Hills, where they demolished two tents used as livestock enclosures. The forces then went to the community of Kh. Wadi Ejheish, southeast of the village of a-Samu’ in the South Hebron Hills, where they destroyed six seasonal residential tents belonging to five families with a total of 24 members, including 11 minors. During the demolition, the forces fired tear gas canisters at residents who gathered at the site to try and stop the demolition.
On Tuesday, 25 October 2022, at around 9:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort and two diggers at the southern neighborhood of the town of Bani Na’im, located in an area known as a-Nabi Yakin Tomb, in Hebron District. The forces demolished a two-story building under construction set to house a family of 10, including five minors. During the demolition, the forces fired tear gas canisters and live bullets and threw stun grenades at local residents who had gathered at the site in an attempt to stop the demolition. The forces also beat and arrested one of the locals.
On Monday, 24 October 2022, at around 10:30 A.M., officials from the Jordan Valley Regional Council, representing Israeli settlements in the area, came with a military escort to the community of Kh. Wadi al-Faw, south of Kh. ‘Ein al-Hilweh in the northern Jordan Valley. The council officials and soldiers confiscated a trailer and a solar power generation system that had been given to the community by COMET ME. On 20 September 2022, soldiers confiscated equipment intended for the same solar power system, as well as the pickup truck transporting it, after settlement council representatives summoned them there.
On Friday morning, 21 October 2022, representatives of the Jordan Valley settlements regional council arrived at a dirt road about a kilometer long that Palestinian farmers recently dug near the community of Khallet Khader in al-Farisiyah, the northern Jordan Valley, and rendered it unusable.
On Wednesday, 19 October 2022, at around 2:00 P.M., military forces came to the village of Kardalah in the Jordan Valley and detained a truck driver transporting building materials. The forces ordered him to drive the truck to a military camp near the settlement of Mehola, where he was held for several hours before being allowed to leave with the truck.
On Sunday, 16 October 2022, farmers in the area of Um Kbeish, south of Khirbet ‘Atuf, found “Warning of Required Evacuation” orders in their plots of land. The orders related to about 350 trees, some of them olive trees, planted in an area of about 100 dunams, claiming the land is state land. On 6 October 2022, Civil Administration personnel placed an order to uproot some 140 trees in an olive grove in the area, based on the same claim.
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.
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Demolition of structure in Fasayil a-Tahta. Photo by 'Aref Daraghmeh, B'Tselem, 25 Nov. 2020
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.
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Demolition of structure in Masafer Yatta. Photo by Nasser Nawaj'ah, B'Tselem, 25 Nov. 2020
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.
