Ethnic cleansing of Palestinian communities and lone families in the West Bank (62 communities as of 22 Apr 2026)
Ethnic cleansing of Palestinian communities and lone families in the West Bank (62 communities as of 22 Apr 2026)
On Sunday, 31 May 2026, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and two trucks at the village of Jiftlik in the Jordan Valley, and dismantled and confiscated three residential tents owned by a family of 19, including 12 minors. The forces also dismantled and confiscated two tents used as a sheep enclosure and a sheepfold, five water tanks, and two outhouses.
On Sunday, 10 May 2026, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort and a digger at the village of Khashm a-Daraj in the South Hebron Hills, and demolished a single-room agricultural structure and a hut used as a sheep enclosure.
On Thursday, 7 May 2026, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and two diggers at the village of Bardalah in the Jordan Valley and demolished five vegetable and fruit greenhouses. The owners dismantled two additional greenhouses themselves to avoid demolition by Civil Administration personnel.
On Thursday, 7 May 2026, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and two diggers at the village of Bardalah in the Jordan Valley and demolished five vegetable and fruit greenhouses. The owners dismantled two additional greenhouses themselves to avoid demolition by Civil Administration personnel.
On Tuesday, 5 May 2026, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and a digger at the community of Maghazi Jaba’, and demolished an old stone structure housing a family of eight, including five minors, leaving them homeless.
On Monday morning, 16 March 2026, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort, a digger and a bulldozer, at the community of Fasayil al-Wusta in the Jordan Valley. The forces demolished the home of the last remaining family in the community, which numbers a total of seven people, including four children. The other families in the community were forced to leave on 6 March 2026 following attacks and harassment by settlers.
The forces also demolished a tent used to host human rights activists, an outhouse, a tent the family used as a livestock enclosure, a chicken coop, about 12 troughs, six water tanks, a fence and an oven.
On Thursday, 19 February 2026, Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort and a digger to the village of ‘Ein al-Beida in the Jordan Valley and demolished a structure under construction that was to house a family with three children.
On Wednesday, 18 February 2026, Civil Administration personnel, arrived with a Border Police escort and a digger, in the Khirbet Qalqas neighborhood in the south of Hebron, demolished two residential buildings containing seven units, leaving seven families, numbering 29 people in total, including 16 minors, homeless. The Israeli forces also destroyed a water cistern and a car repair shop owned by the families
On Wednesday, 11 February 2026, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort as well as a digger at the village of Khashm a-Daraj. The forces demolished three residential shacks and three shacks used as livestock enclosures belonging to two families numbering 14 people in total, including six minors.
On Wednesday, 11 February 2026, at around 8:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and a digger at the village of Marj Ghazal in the Jordan Valley and demolished a shack used as a blacksmith shop and an agricultural shed owned by a local resident, as well as a farming equipment repair shop owned by another resident.
From there, the forces continued west to the village of al-Jiftlik, where they demolished a tent in which a local family resided while working their land, as well as a livestock enclosure owned by another family.
On Sunday, 8 February 2026, Civil Administration personnel, arrived with a military escort and a digger at the community of Khirbet ‘Ein al-Hilweh in the northern Jordan Valley. The forces demolished the home of a family of four, including two minors, a tent used as a livestock enclosure, a livestock pen and three water tanks.
On Sunday, 8 February 2026, Civil Administration personnel, arrived with a military escort and a digger at the community of Khirbet ‘Ein al-Hilweh in the northern Jordan Valley. The forces demolished the home of a family of four, including two minors, a tent used as a livestock enclosure, a livestock pen and three water tanks.
Israel’s regime of apartheid and occupation is inextricably bound up in human rights violations. B’Tselem strives to end this regime, as that is the only way forward to a future in which human rights, democracy, liberty and equality are ensured to all people, both Palestinian and Israeli, living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
Since the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023, Israel has acted in a coordinated and deliberate manner to destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip, committing genocide against its residents. In light of Israel’s actions in Gaza, the public statements made by Israeli decision-makers, and the international community’s failure to take effective action, there is a serious risk that the Israeli regime will expand the genocide to other areas under its control—first and foremost, the West Bank.
B’Tselem calls on the Israeli public and the international community to use every tool available under international law to bring an immediate end to Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people.