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.
25 October 2021
In the morning hours of Monday, 25 October 2021, Civil Administration officials accompanied by soldiers and Border Police officers, and equipped with bulldozers, arrived at the community of al-Mufaqarah in Masafer Yatta. The forces confiscated a tent set up by community residents to host people visiting the area as a show of solidarity following the settler attack on 28 September 2021.
From there, the forces continued south and destroyed a dirt road leading from the community of Khirbet Khilet a-Dabe’ to the community of al-Fakhit. They also destroyed the main water line that ran alongside it, which serves most of the communities in Masafer Yatta.
The acts of destruction yesterday, as well as the settler attack on al-Mufaqarah, are part of the state’s attempt to expel the residents of Masafer Yatta from their place of residence. As part of these attempts, the state forbids them to legally build their homes or connect to water and power grids, restricts their grazing land, and enables acts of settler violence in order to make their lives so unbearable that they will leave of their own volition (Video Filmed by ‘Eid Hazalin and Itai Feitelson).
