Confiscations and demolitions in South Hebron Hills and Jordan Valley
17 March 2021
On Wednesday morning, 17 March 2021, at around 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort and a tow truck to Khirbet Khallet a-Dabe’ in Masafer Yatta, an area in the South Hebron Hills. The forces dismantled an agricultural tent and confiscated it.
Around the same time, Civil Administration personnel came with a military and Border Police escort, a digger and two crane trucks to the community of a-Nuwei’mah al-Foqa, north of Jericho. The forces demolished a shack and dismantled and confiscated 10 tents. These structures were the seasonal dwellings of 11 families numbering 66 people in total, 28 of them minors. In addition, the forces confiscated nine plastic water containers, each of them one cubic meter in volume. This was after the Civil Administration had demolished four tents and two shacks that were the seasonal dwellings of six of the families – 28 people in total, 14 of them minors – on 29 December 2020.
At around 12:30 P.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort, two diggers and a crane truck to the village of Khirbet Tana, east of Beit Furik. They demolished four tents that were home to five families, numbering 22 people in total, 9 of them minors. The forces also destroyed five tents that these families used as livestock pens.