On Tuesday, 18 February 2025, at around 8:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel, accompanied by soldiers and Border Police officers and equipped with two excavators, arrived at the community of Um al-Kheir in the South Hebron Hills. The forces demolished three homes, leaving three young men homeless. The forces then continued to the community of a-Rakeez in Masafer Yatta, where they demolished a trailer home, leaving a family of five, including three minors, homeless. After that, the forces proceeded to She’b al-Batem, also in Masafer Yatta, where they demolished a trailer home that was not yet inhabited and a livestock enclosure.
10 February 2025Kh. Khallet a-Dabe', Maghayir al-'Abid, Kh. Jenbah
On Monday, 10 February 2025, at around 9:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort and three excavators to the community of Khirbet Khallet a-Dabe’ in the Masafer Yatta area in South Hebron Hills. The forces demolished seven cinder-block structures with tin roofs that were home to seven families, leaving 54 people, including 28 minors, homeless. They also destroyed four caves, two water cisterns, two water tanks, three solar panels and a stone fence used by some of the families.The forces then continued north to the community of Maghayir al-‘Abid, where they demolished an agricultural structure. From there, they moved south to the community of Khirbet Jinbeh, where they demolished two more cinder-block structures with tin roofs that were home to two families, leaving 20 people, including seven minors, homeless.
On Wednesday, 29 January 2025, personnel from the Civil Administration, accompanied by soldiers and Border Police officers and equipped with an excavator and bulldozer, arrived in the community of Khallet Taha in the South Hebron Hills and demolished a home of a family of eight, including four minors, as well as another home that was still under construction.
On Wednesday, 29 January 2025, around 8:00 A.M., personnel from the Civil Administration, accompanied by soldiers and equipped with a bulldozer and an excavator, arrived in the village of 'Ein a-Duyuk at-Tahta in the Jordan Valley and demolished seven homes, two under construction and two that had not yet been inhabited, as well as three homes owned by three families totaling 17 people, including 9 minors. The forces also demolished an agricultural shed.
On Tuesday, 28 January 2025, in the morning, personnel from the Civil Administration, accompanied by soldiers and equipped with three excavators, arrived in the al-Matar area in Jericho and demolished a vacation home consisting of two apartments, as well as a swimming pool, a fence surrounding the house, and another fence surrounding a plot of land adjacent to it, all owned by a resident of East Jerusalem. The forces also demolished two residential buildings under construction owned by other individuals.
On Sunday, 26 January 2025, around 9:00 A.M., personnel from the Civil Administration, accompanied by soldiers and equipped with three excavators, arrived in the village of Furush Beit Dajan in the Jordan Valley and demolished a seasonal home and an irrigation reservoir owned by a family of 12, including nine minors. The forces also demolished two more irrigation reservoirs belonging to two other families in the area and two structures, one used for agricultural purposes and the other for rest, owned by another family. In addition, the owners of two prefabs used for agricultural purposes were forced to dismantle them after receiving stop-work orders on 19 January 2025.
On Saturday, 25 January 2025, soldiers arrived in the area of Hamamat al-Malih in the Jordan Valley, confiscated a forklift and instructed its driver, a local resident, to take it to the military base in Maskiyot.
On Wednesday, 8 January 2025, personnel from the Civil Administration, accompanied by soldiers and Border Police officers and equipped with an excavator, arrived in the community of Khirbet a-Tawyel in the Jordan Valley and demolished tents and shelters used by five families, totaling 27 people, including 17 minors, after the Civil Administration had already demolished their homes about a month earlier. The forces also demolished 12 sheep pens, 12 barns, an outhouse, six water tanks and a fence owned by these families and three additional families.
On Sunday, 5 January 2025, around 9:00 A.M., personnel from the Civil Administration, accompanied by soldiers and equipped with an excavator and a bulldozer, arrived in the area of al-Makhruq in al-Jiftlik and demolished two or three agricultural structures. Image description: The demolition of the structures in al-Makhruq.
On Sunday, 5 January 2025, personnel from the Civil Administration, accompanied by soldiers and equipped with an excavator, arrived in the village of Furush Beit Dajan in the Jordan Valley and demolished three reservoirs used for irrigating crops.
On Tuesday, 31 Dec. 2024, around 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort and a digger to the area of Khilet 'Alan near the village of al-Jiftlik in the Jordan Valley. The force demolished a home belonging to a family of three, one of them a minor.
On Friday, 17 Dec. 2024, around 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort, a digger and a bulldozer to the community of Nu'eimah a-Tahta north of Jericho. The force demolished two vacation homes, a swimming pool and the surrounding fence, owned by a family from Jenin.
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.
