On Wednesday, 24 July 2024, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and an excavator at the al-Matar area, located east of Jericho. The force demolished a family’s home, leaving 12 people–including five minors–homeless. It also destroyed the home’s fence and a sheep pen, and uprooted fruit trees.
On Tuesday, 23 July 2024, at around 9:30 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort and four excavators at the community of al-Jawaya in the South Hebron Hills and demolished a residential tent that belonged to a family of 10, including seven minors. The family had been forced to live in the tent since the Civil Administration demolished their home on 4 June 2024.The family was left without shelter for a second time. The forces then continued south to the village of a-Tuwani, where they demolished the home of another family of 10–including five minors–leaving them homeless, too.
On Thursday, 18 July 2024, at around 8:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and four excavators to northern Jericho and demolished four vacation homes—two of which were under construction—four swimming pools, and approximately 10 water tanks.
On Thursday, 17 July 2024, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and Border Police officers at the community of Khirbet a-Taybah in Hebron District. The military declared the community a "firing zone" during the war and its residents were expelled, but they continue to go there to graze their sheep. The forces demolished an agricultural structure and damaged three water tanks, a gate, and a shade structure for the sheep.
On Sunday, 14 July 2024, Civil Administration officials arrived with a military escort and an excavator in the Satiah area of western Jericho and demolished a vacation home under construction, a pool, and two water tanks owned by the family building the house. This, in addition to the fence surrounding their plot of land, and a storage shed owned by a different family.
On Thursday, 11 July 2024, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military Border Police escort and an excavator at Khirbet Qalqas neighborhood in the city of Hebron. They demolished a three-story building that housed three families’ apartments, leaving 18 people, including 11 minors, homeless.
On Thursday, 11 July 2024, at around 9:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and an excavator in the area of al-Matar, east of Jericho, and demolished two vacation homes under construction owned by two families. Additionally, the forces demolished five horse stables that belonged to a different family–one of which was under construction–a fence surrounding the stables, a lounge made of stone, a metal storage shed, and two water containers.
On the morning of Monday, 8 July 2024, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort and two excavators to the community of Qawawis in the South Hebron Hills. They demolished a house and a sheep pen, leaving a family of two homeless.The forces then moved north to the community of She'b al-Batem, where they demolished homes used seasonally by two families, totaling 17 people, including nine minors, and two agricultural structures belonging to a third family.
On the afternoon of Tuesday, 8 July 2024, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and an excavator in the village of Furush Beit Dajan in the Jordan Valley. They demolished a home used seasonally by a family of four, including two minors, as well as their water tank.
On Thursday, 4 July 2024, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort at the community of Birin, northeast of the town of Yatta. The forces demolished the homes of six families, numbering a total of 33 people, including 17 minors. Four of the families, numbering a total of 19 people, including 12 minors, were left homeless. The remaining two homes were seasonal. The forces demolished a livestock pen belonging to another family.
On Wednesday, 3 July 2024, at around 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort and a digger at Fasayil al-Wasta in the central Jordan Valley and demolished the foundations of a residential building under construction pursuant to Order No. 1797. From there, the forces moved on to Fasayil al-Foqa and demolished a finished but still vacant residential building.
On Tuesday, 2 July 2024, at around 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and two diggers at the village of al-Jiftlik in the central Jordan Valley. The forces demolished the home of one family, leaving 11 people, including eight minors, homeless.
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.