On Monday, 4 April 2022, at around 4:00 P.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived at an agricultural project site near the village of al-’Auja with a military escort and a truck and confiscated a crane truck used for laying pipes.
On Thursday, 31 March 2022, at around 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came to the village of a-Tuwani in the South Hebron Hills along with soldiers and Border Police officers. They confiscated a tractor and its trailer, claiming it had been used to build a structure against which the Civil Administration had issued a stop work order. When the tractor owners tried to resist the confiscation, members of the force pushed them forcefully, knocking down one of the family members.
On Wednesday, 23 March 2022, at around 9:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort and equipped with a bulldozer to the southern side of the village of al-’Auja. The forces demolished a house under construction intended to house a young couple by power of Military Order 1797. Later, at around 4:00 P.M., soldiers came to farmland near the community of (a-Zoabi) al-Farisiyah and confiscated a bulldozer owned by a resident of al-’Auja used for agricultural work in the area.
On Tuesday, 23 March 2022, at around 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort, a bulldozer and a crane truck to the main trance to the Khirbet Qalqas neighborhood in the city of Hebron.. The forces confiscated a prefab that served as a gas station and a broken-down minibus used for storage. From there, the forces continued about a kilometer towards Hebron, where they demolished agricultural terraces and uprooted about 60 olive trees in a four-dunam grove belonging to a Hebron resident.
On Sunday, 20 March 2022, at around 9:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort and equipped with a bulldozer to the community of East Taybah (Badu al-Mu’arrajat) and demolished four out of six of the community’s wooden and tin residential structures. The demolished structures housed four families from the same extended family, numbering 21 people in total, including eight minor.
On 15 March 2022, while Mufdi Sawaftah was spraying fields for landowners on a tractor near the community of al-Burj, northeast of Hamamat al-Malih, Jordan Valley Settlement regional council employees arrived and summoned soldiers to the scene. The soldiers confiscated the tractor on the pretext that it had entered a firing zone and led it to a military camp west of Khirbet Samrah. The soldiers detained Sawaftah for about half an hour, claiming he had stayed in a firing zone although it was cultivated farmland and he was employed by its owners.
On Monday, 14 March 2022, at around 10:00, Jordan Valley Settlement regional council employees came with a military and Israel Police escort to four vegetable stalls that stood on Route 90 and confiscated their goods. Seven families make a living from operating the stalls, located between the villages of Bardalah and ‘Ein al-Beida. The stalls were rebuilt after the settlement council employees dismantled them and confiscated their goods on 8 March 2022.
On Tuesday, 8 March 2022, Jordan Valley Settlement Council employees arrived with a military and Israel Police escort and demolished three vegetables stalls along Route 90 between the villages of Bardalah and 'Ein al-Beida and confiscated their and two other stalls' goods. The destruction of the stalls and confiscation of the goods, which supported eight families, was carried out by the power of an order issued by the regional council and delivered to the families on 6 March 2022.
6 March 2022خلة مكحول, خ. ام الجمال, Khallet Makhul, Kh. Um al-Jmal, Khallet Makhul, Kh. Um al-Jamal
On Sunday morning, 6 March 2022, the military again conducted infantry training in various parts of the Jordan Valley: south of Khirbet Um al-Jamal, in the a-Shakh area near the village of al-Farisiyah and next to Um al-Qiba near Hamamat al-Malih. During the training the soldiers trampled cultivated fields and fired live ammunition. The shepherds were forced to leave the herds in the pen and not go out to pasture. On Tuesday, 8 March 2022, soldiers trained east of the community of Khirbet Makhul and expelled shepherds from the area on the pretext that it was a closed military zone.
On Thursday, 3 March 2022, at around 9:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort and four crane trucks to the village of Cardalah in the northern Jordan Valley. The forces dismantled and confiscated an agricultural structure and shed owned by a village resident and tin plates intended for the construction of a chicken coop owned by another resident.
On Monday afternoon, 28 February 2022, a military force arrived at an agricultural area east of Khirbet ‘Atuf in the northern Jordan Valley, confiscated a bulldozer, a truck and a container owned by two area residents and led them to the nearby settlement of Ro’i. The confiscation was carried out on the pretext of entering Firing Zone 901.
On Monday, 28 February 2022, at around 9:30 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort and equipped with bulldozers to the Fasayil al-Foqa area in the northern Jordan Valley. The forces demolished an uncovered cement structure under construction intended to house an area resident. The demolition was carried out by order of Military Order 1797, delivered on 23 February 2022. An additional order was delivered for a storage unit built by another family in the area.
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.