5 January 2025 Frush Beit Dajan
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.
31 December 2024 Kh. ‘Alan, al-Jiftlik
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.
17 December 2024 a-Nuwei'mah a-Tahta
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.
16 December 2024 East Jerusalem, 'Anata
On Monday, 16 December 2024, around 6:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a Border Police escort and equipped with three diggers in the northeastern part of 'Anata, a town in Al-Quds District. The forces destroyed 8 homes, leaving 8 families totaling 41 people, including 21 minors, homeless. The forces also demolished a shed that served as a sheep pen and a structure used as a guest hall (diwan) belonging to two of the families.Later that day, around 8:00 A.M., Jerusalem Municipality personnel arrived with a Border Police escort and equipped with three diggers in the al-Bustan neighborhood of Silwan, in East Jerusalem. They demolished 9 homes, leaving 9 families totaling 32 people, including 15 minors, homeless. Israel is soon planning to demolish about 80 other homes in the neighborhood and to create a park in their place, all as part of its Judaization efforts in East Jerusalem.
10 December 2024 Kh. al-Fakhit
On Tuesday, 10 Dec. 2024, Civil Administration personnel came with a military and Border Police escort and two diggers to the community of Khirbet al-Fakhit in the South Hebron Hills. The force demolished two shacks and a tent that were home to a family of six people, five of them minors, leaving the family homeless. The force also demolished the family's outhouse.
10 December 2024 Kh. al-Twayel
On Tuesday, 10 Dec. 2024, Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort and three diggers to Khirbet a-Twayel in the Jordan Valley District. The force demolished 10 homes, leaving 10 families totaling 47 people, 24 of them minors, homeless. The force also demolished nine sheep pens, two tents used to store animal feed, five water tanks and two fences, belonging to eight of the families.
27 November 2024 Kh. Humsah a-Tahta
On Wednesday, 27 Nov. 2024, around 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with people from the settlement council to the area of Khirbet Humsa a-Tahta in the Jordan Valley and confiscated a cart with solar panels. The officials ordered the owner to drag the cart to a nearby military base using a tractor belonging to another resident of the community.
25 November 2024 al-Burj (Hamam al-Maleh)
On 25 November 2024, Civil Administration personnel, accompanied by soldiers and equipped with an excavator and a bulldozer, arrived in the al-Burj area in the northern Jordan Valley and demolished the home of a family of eight, including four minors.
18 November 2024 Kh. Um al-Jamal
On Monday, 18 Nov. 2024, around 9:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and equipped with a digger at the community of Khirbet Um al-Jamal in the northern Jordan Valley and demolished the homes of five families totaling 30 people, including 17 minors. The families were forced to abandon their homes on 12 Aug. 2024 along with seven other families for fear of settler violence. All the structures were donated by the humanitarian organization ACF.
13 November 2024 Cardalah
On Monday, 13 Nov. 2024, around 8:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort and two diggers to the village of Kardalah in the Jordan Valley and demolished an almost completed house intended for a couple to live in.
13 November 2024 Bardalah
On Wednesday, 13 November 2024, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and a crane at the Palestinian community of Bardala in the Jordan Valley. The forces dismantled and confiscated a pre-fab that served as a home for a family of five, including three minors, who had leased land in the village and moved there.
11 November 2024 Jaba' (al-Quds)
On Monday, 11 November 2024, in the early morning hours, Civil Administration personnel, arrived with a military escort at the community of Jaba’ al-’Ara’reh, northeast of Jerusalem, and demolished two structures that were used as a mosque and a diwan (a room used for community gatherings), six shacks used as sheepfolds and a garage.
12 July 2021
On Monday, 12 July 2021, at around 8:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort and three bulldozers to the town of Bani Na’im in Hebron District. The forces demolished about 200 square meters of agricultural terraces, a fence put up at the village entrance and a shed used for storing agricultural equipment. From there, the forces continued south to the communities of Khirbet Um Qusa and ‘Abdiyeh in the Um Daraj area. They confiscated a prefab set up by residents, which served as a clinic run by Doctors Without Borders, serving over 400 residents.
At the same time, at around 8:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort and a bulldozer to the agricultural area of Bardalah Marah, which extends about a kilometer from the Bardalah village center, and demolished an agricultural pool. The pool was built in cooperation between the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture, and was used to irrigate the crops of several area farmers.
These are not exceptional cases. Rather, they are part of Israel’s routine harassment of Palestinian communities in the South Hebron Hills and northern Jordan Valley, in a bid to expel them from their homes and area of residence.
