Demolitions and confiscations in communities facing expulsion

On Sunday, 12 May 2024, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and a digger at the community of a-Nuwei’mah a-Tahta in the northern Jordan Valley and demolished three homes under construction. The forces then continued north to the Ras ‘Ein al-’Auja area, where they demolished another home under construction.

On Thursday, 9 May 2024, Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort to the village of Duma in Nablus District and demolished four residential tents and two sheds belonging to two families, numbering 11 people in total, seven of them minors, who were expelled from their homes in the community of ‘Ein a-Rashash on 13 October 2023, leaving them once again homeless. The force also demolished the homes of two other families numbering 17 people in total, 13 of them minors, leaving them homeless.

On Wednesday, 8 May 2024, Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort and two diggers to the village of al-Jiftlik in the Jordan Valley. The force demolished the homes of two families, numbering 11 people in total, six of them minors, leaving them homeless. The force also demolished a residential structure not yet inhabited and an agricultural shed belonging to another family.

From there, the force continued north to Furush Beit Dajan and demolished a seasonal home of a family of nine, four of them minors.

On Wednesday, 1 May 2024, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort and a bulldozer at the community of Khalet al-Furn, South Hebron Hills. They demolished the home of a family of seven, including five minors, leaving them homeless.

On Wednesday, 3 April 2024, at around 1:00 P.M., Jordan Valley settlement council staff arrived at Khirbet Ibziq in the northern Jordan Valley with a soldier. They seized a car belonging to a farmer who was working his land on a tractor and ordered him to drive it to the military base north of Khirbet Samrah, on the pretext that it had entered “Firing Zone 900.”
 

On Monday, 18 March 2024, around 11:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort and about seven diggers and bulldozers to the area of al-Matar, east of Jericho. The forces demolished two vacation homes under construction and a wooden vacation structure, two trailers used for agriculture, a barbed wire fence and 11 concrete walls surrounding structures and plots of land. The forces also demolished two outhouses, three water tanks and seven solar panels, and uprooted 25 trees around one of the structures.

On Wednesday, 13 March 2024, around 8:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort and two diggers to the village of al-‘Auja in the Jordan Valley. The force took some equipment out of a restaurant there, and then demolished the structure with the remaining contents inside.

On Monday, 11 March 2024, at around 9:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military and Border Police escort and digger to Khirbet a-Tiran, which lies south of the town of a-Dhahiriyah in the South Hebron Hills. The forces demolished the home of one of three families in the community, leaving six people, three of the minors, homeless.

On Thursday morning, 29 Feb. 2024, at around 6:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort, two diggers and a bulldozer at the village of ‘Ein a-Duyuk a-Tahta, west of Jericho. The forces demolished an agricultural rainwater pool along with a stone wall and barbed wire fence that surrounded it. They also demolished a home, a concrete wall around it and a swimming pool, vandalized eight water tanks, and razed fruit trees in the yard.

At around 7:00 A.M., the forces arrived at the area of Satih, south of Jericho. They demolished two homes, leaving two families numbering nine people, three of them minors, homeless. They also demolished a vacation home belonging to another family, a fence surrounding it and a swimming pool, vandalized two water tanks and razed about 60 fruit trees. In addition, they demolished an agricultural structure and a water tank belonging to a fourth family.

At around 8:00 A.M., the forces arrived at the area of al-Matar, east of Jericho. They demolished two vacation homes, a structure used for storage, three water tanks, two swimming pools and solar panels belonging to two families that live in East Jerusalem.

On Tuesday 13 February 2024, at around 11:00 A.M., a Jordan Valley settlement regional council official arrived with soldiers at some farmland in the village of al-Hadidiyah in the northern Jordan Valley. The Israeli forces confiscated a truck carrying two tons of fertilizer, claiming it was illegal. They ordered the driver to follow them to the Beka'ot military base and from there to the military base in Hamamat al-Maleh, where he was told to leave the truck with its cargo.

On Tuesday, 6 February 2024, at around 8:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and two bulldozers at the community of a-Nuwei'mah a-Tahta in the northern Jordan Valley. The forces demolished the home of an elderly couple, leaving them homeless. They also demolished a shed they used for storage.

The Civil Administration personnel told five other families in the area that their homes would be demolished in the coming days following stop work orders handed to them on 7 January 2024.

On Tuesday, 23 January 2024, at around 8:30 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military and Border Police escort and a bulldozer to the community of Khirbet Lasefar in the South Hebron Hills, and demolished a house consisting of two apartments, which were home to two families numbering 11 people in total, 7 of them minors.
The force continued west to the community of Khallet al-Furn, where it demolished a prefab used for storing farming equipment.