Demolitions and confiscations in communities facing expulsion

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On Wednesday, 6 November 2024, Civil Administration personnel, escorted by soldiers and equipped with a digger, arrived at the village of al-Jiftlik in the Jordan Valley and demolished a house intended to serve as a home for a couple. The house had not yet been inhabited.

On Wednesday, 6 Nov. 2024, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and equipped with a digger in the community of a-Rakeez in Masafer Yatta, the South Hebron Hills, and demolished a home belonging to a family of six, including four minors. The family was left homeless.

On Monday, 4 November 2024, around 8:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel, escorted by soldiers and equipped with a digger, arrived in the area of al-Matar, east of Jericho, and demolished a vacation home owned by a resident of East Jerusalem, along with the surrounding fence. The forces also demolished a sheep pen and its surrounding fence, which were owned by a local resident.