Demolitions and confiscations in communities facing expulsion

On Monday, 10 February 2025, at around 9:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort and three excavators to the community of Khirbet Khallet a-Dabe’ in the Masafer Yatta area in South Hebron Hills. The forces demolished seven cinder-block structures with tin roofs that were home to seven families, leaving 54 people, including 28 minors, homeless. They also destroyed four caves, two water cisterns, two water tanks, three solar panels and a stone fence used by some of the families.

The forces then continued north to the community of Maghayir al-‘Abid, where they demolished an agricultural structure. From there, they moved south to the community of Khirbet Jinbeh, where they demolished two more cinder-block structures with tin roofs that were home to two families, leaving 20 people, including seven minors, homeless.

On Wednesday, 29 January 2025, personnel from the Civil Administration, accompanied by soldiers and Border Police officers and equipped with an excavator and bulldozer, arrived in the community of Khallet Taha in the South Hebron Hills and demolished a home of a family of eight, including four minors, as well as another home that was still under construction.

On Wednesday, 29 January 2025, around 8:00 A.M., personnel from the Civil Administration, accompanied by soldiers and equipped with a bulldozer and an excavator, arrived in the village of 'Ein a-Duyuk at-Tahta in the Jordan Valley and demolished seven homes, two under construction and two that had not yet been inhabited, as well as three homes owned by three families totaling 17 people, including 9 minors. The forces also demolished an agricultural shed.

On Tuesday, 28 January 2025, in the morning, personnel from the Civil Administration, accompanied by soldiers and equipped with three excavators, arrived in the al-Matar area in Jericho and demolished a vacation home consisting of two apartments, as well as a swimming pool, a fence surrounding the house, and another fence surrounding a plot of land adjacent to it, all owned by a resident of East Jerusalem. The forces also demolished two residential buildings under construction owned by other individuals. 

On Sunday, 26 January 2025, around 9:00 A.M., personnel from the Civil Administration, accompanied by soldiers and equipped with three excavators, arrived in the village of Furush Beit Dajan in the Jordan Valley and demolished a seasonal home and an irrigation reservoir owned by a family of 12, including nine minors. The forces also demolished two more irrigation reservoirs belonging to two other families in the area and two structures, one used for agricultural purposes and the other for rest, owned by another family. In addition, the owners of two prefabs used for agricultural purposes were forced to dismantle them after receiving stop-work orders on 19 January 2025. 

On Saturday, 25 January 2025, soldiers arrived in the area of Hamamat al-Malih in the Jordan Valley, confiscated a forklift and instructed its driver, a local resident, to take it to the military base in Maskiyot. 

On Wednesday, 8 January 2025, personnel from the Civil Administration, accompanied by soldiers and Border Police officers and equipped with an excavator, arrived in the community of Khirbet a-Tawyel in the Jordan Valley and demolished tents and shelters used by five families, totaling 27 people, including 17 minors, after the Civil Administration had already demolished their homes about a month earlier. The forces also demolished 12 sheep pens, 12 barns, an outhouse, six water tanks and a fence owned by these families and three additional families.

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. 

On Sunday, 5 January 2025, around 9:00 A.M., personnel from the Civil Administration, accompanied by soldiers and equipped with an excavator and a bulldozer, arrived in the area of al-Makhruq in al-Jiftlik and demolished two or three agricultural structures. 
Image description: The demolition of the structures in al-Makhruq. 

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.

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.

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.