On Monday, 5 August 2024, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort and two diggers at the Palestinian community of al-Jawaya in the South Hebron Hills and destroyed a water cistern used for domestic purposes and irrigation.
On Monday, 29 July 2024, at approximately 9:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and an excavator at the village of ‘Ein a-Duyuk a-Tahta located west of Jericho. They demolished a vacation home, its surrounding fence and a storage shed, all of which belonged to a resident of East Jerusalem.
On Thursday, 25 July 2024, at around 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and two excavators at the village of al-Jiftlik in the Jordan Valley. They demolished a storage shed, three shacks that served as a blacksmith workshop and a trailer used as the workshop’s storage unit.
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 Tuesday, 15 February 2022, at around 7:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military and Border Police escort and a bulldozer to the community of Khirbet al-Fakhit in Masafer Yatta, South Hebron Hills. The forced demolished an agricultural shack belonging to one of the community’s families for the second time.
From there, the forces continued north to the village of Khallet al-Mayah, where they demolished a house under construction intended to house a family of six, including four minors, as well as the family’s cistern.
During the incident, the homeowner came to the scene, and a confrontation ensued between him and the security forces, who knocked him to the ground, and one leaned his knee on his stomach. The forces then tied his hands and feet, grabbed them, picked him up, put him in a jeep and took him to the police station in Kiryat Arba. At the station, he was questioned on suspicion of assaulting members of the security forces and was released that night on a NIS 1,000 bail.
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Demolition of the house in Khallet al-Mayah. Photo by Basil Al-adraa