On Wednesday, 21 May 2025, Civil Administration personnel, escorted by soldiers and equipped with a bulldozer, arrived at the village of Marj Na’jah in the Jordan Valley and demolished concrete slabs intended to serve as the foundations for four pre-fab homes. The forces also demolished a seasonal tent home belonging to a family of four, including two minors, as well as three tents used as livestock pens and one livestock enclosure. The Civil Administration had previously demolished this family’s seasonal residence in September 2024.
On Wednesday, 21 May 2025, Civil Administration personnel, escorted by soldiers and equipped with bulldozers, arrived at the village of Furush Beit Dajan in the Jordan Valley and demolished a pool used to irrigate a fruit tree orchard and greenhouses. The forces then proceeded to another irrigation pool, about 500 meters away. They found the landowner had already demolished the pool after receiving a demolition order in January 2025, for fear the forces would also demolish the greenhouses it irrigated.
On Monday, 5 May 2025, Civil Administration personnel, accompanied by soldiers and two bulldozers, arrived in Khirbet a-Deir in the Jordan Valley. They demolished two homes, leaving two families—five people, including one minor—without shelter.The forces also destroyed two shacks used as sheep pens, five fodder storage tents, and two outhouses. They vandalized eight water tanks, 28 solar panels, and ten feeding troughs.
On Monday, 5 May 2025, in the morning hours, Civil Administration personnel, escorted by Border Police officers and soldiers and equipped with an excavator and bulldozer, arrived in the community of Khirbet Khallet a-Dabe’ in the South Hebron Hills. The forces demolished ten homes, leaving 49 people, including 27 minors, without shelter. Additionally, the forces demolished 11 sanitation structures, two kitchen structures, 11 water tanks, five water cisterns, three structures used as sheep pens (including a cave), a hospitality hall, an electricity room, a solar power network and water infrastructure.The community was left with the school building and four residential homes that are still under legal proceedings. Families whose homes were demolished received tents from a humanitarian organization and remained in the community area.Khirbet Khallet a-Dabe’ is one of the communities in the Masafer Yatta region of the South Hebron Hills, which Israel declared a “closed military zone” in the early 1980s, with the aim of seizing the area and expelling its residents. Since then, the state has prohibited the development of the communities—many of which predate the occupation of the West Bank—prevented their connection to water and electricity infrastructure, and repeatedly demolished their homes, any infrastructure they tried to build, and even the roads leading to the communities. In recent years, the communities have also suffered repeated settler attacks, often with army assistance, which also allows settlers to establish outposts within the declared “firing zone” adjacent to them.
On Tuesday, 29 April 2025, Civil Administration forces, accompanied soldiers and Border Police and equipped with four bulldozers, arrived atin the village of a-Zuweidin in the South Hebron Hills. The force demolished two homes, leaving left two families – 22 people, including 17 minors – homeless. The force also demolished two water cisterns, a shack used as a sheep pen, and three livestock enclosures.
On Tuesday, 22 April 2025, Civil Administration personnel, accompanied by soldiers and Border Police officers and equipped with a bulldozer, arrived in the community of al-Jawaya, southeast of the town of Yatta in the South Hebron Hills. They demolished a water cistern and vandalized a water tank.
On Wednesday, 9 April 2025, at around 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel, escorted by soldiers and equipped with a bulldozer, arrived at the community of Khirbet a-Deir in the Jordan Valley. The forces demolished an irrigation pool and confiscated three solar panels and two generators.
On Sunday, 6 April 2025, at around 9:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a bulldozer and trucks, escorted by soldiers and members of the Jordan Valley Settlement Council, to the area of Ras al-Ahmar in the Jordan Valley. The forces dismantled and confiscated eight residential tents, leaving four families – a total of 35 people, 15 of them minors – without shelter. The families had relocated to the area after settler violence drove them out of their homes in Khirbet Samrah about 20 days earlier. The forces also demolished a livestock enclosure and confiscated eight livestock pens, three water tanks, two generators, two solar panels, and two carts used for carrying goods.
31 March 2025Bardalah, Khallet Khader (al-Farisiyah), al-Burj (Hamam al-Maleh)
On Monday, 31 March 2025, at around 8:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived in the village of Bardalah with a military escort and a digger. The forces demolished a tin-roofed chicken coop under construction. They then proceeded south to the community of al-Farisiyah (Khallet Khader), where they demolished an unoccupied house, an agricultural tent, a sheep pen, and two water tanks, and damaged an irrigation pipe.From there, the forces continued west to the al-Burj area, where, for the second time in a month, they demolished a family’s shack, home to eight people, including four minors, as well as the family’s sheep pen and outhouse. The family’s home was previously demolished on 25 November 2024.
On Friday, 18 March 2025, Civil Administration personnel, arrived at the Bedouin community of al-Mu’arrajat East (Mleiḥat) in the Jordan Valley escorted by soldiers and members of the Jordan Valley Settlement Council and equipped with a digger. The Israeli forces demolished two shacks used as sheep pens, a livestock enclosure, two troughs, two water tanks, and 18 solar panels.
On Thursday, 6 March 2025, Civil Administration personnel, accompanied by Border Police officers and equipped with an excavator, arrived at the community of Khirbet a-Twayel in Nablus District. The forces demolished five homes, leaving five families—25 people, including 12 minors—homeless.The forces also demolished a fence and three shacks used as livestock enclosures, and dismantled and confiscated another shack used as a livestock enclosure and an outhouse. They demolished or confiscated 10 water tanks, sealed two caves used as livestock pens and for storage, destroyed a road, and damaged the community’s power grid.The structures were erected after the Civil Administration previously demolished the families' homes and livestock enclosures, some on 10 December 2024 and others on 8 January 2025.
6 March 2025al-Burj (Hamam al-Maleh), Kh. Um al-Jamal
On Thursday, 6 March 2025, at around 9:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel, accompanied by soldiers and equipped with an excavator, arrived at the community of al-Burj in the northern Jordan Valley. The forces demolished two tents that housed a family of eight, including four minors, as well as a tent used as a kitchen and bathroom, solar panels, and two water tanks belonging to the same family. The residential tents had been erected after the Civil Administration demolished the family’s home on 25 November 2024.From there, the forces continued to Khirbet Um al-Jamal, where they demolished a residential shack and a livestock enclosure that had been left empty after most of the community’s residents were expelled from their homes under settler threats on 12 August 2024.
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.
