Demolitions and confiscations in communities facing expulsion

On Monday, 2 September 2024, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and a bulldozer at the Palestinian village of ‘Ein a-Duyuk a-Tahta in the Jordan Valley. The Israeli forces demolished a vacant home designed to house a family of seven, including four minors, and a livestock enclosure.

On Monday, 19 August 2024, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and two diggers at a farming area in the Palestinian village of Furush Beit Dajan. The forces demolished a structure originally built for residential use in 1983, but currently used as a break room for farmers, as well as two storage sheds. 
 

On Sunday, 18 August 2024, members of the Palestinian community of Badu a-Mu’arrajat East (Mleihat) demolished a structure donated by a humanitarian organization that they had used to store batteries and other equipment related to the community’s solar system. The demolition was carried out following a stop work order the Civil Administration delivered to the residents on 5 May 2024.

On Wednesday morning, 14 August 2024, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort at the community of Khirbet Um al-Kheir in the South Hebron Hills. The force demolished two trailers and four tents that were home to 17 people, 11 of them minors, leaving the family homeless.

The trailers and tents were installed after Israel demolished the family's home on 26 June 2024.

On Monday, 12 August 2024, a day after Palestinians shot and killed Yonatan Deutsch, an Israeli from Beit She’an, at the Mehola Junction in the Jordan Valley, settlers set up tents about one kilometer (0.6 miles) from the homes of Um al-Jamal, a community in the northern Jordan Valley. Since then, settlers have roamed among the homes, threatening to destroy them.

The community was home to 13 families – 78 people, 43 of them minors. Eight of these families, totaling 48 people, 23 of them minors, moved to Tubas in early July, planning to stay there through August, as they do every year during the hot summer months. This year, however, seven of the families decided not to return in September. They dismantled their tents on 17 August and left.

On 16 August, five other families, totaling 30 people, 20 of them minors, dismantled their tents and left.

As of 22 August, only one family remains on site – nine people, two of them minors, with five tents. Nine permanent structures, donated to the community by an aid organization, are also still standing.

On Monday, 12 August 2024, at around 6:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and a digger, at the village of al-Jiftlik in the Jordan Valley. The forces demolished the home of a mother and daughter, leaving them homeless.  

On Wednesday, 7 August 2024, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military escort and a digger at the village of Furush Beit Dajan in the Jordan Valley and demolished a two-story building still under construction owned by the village council and meant to serve as a medical clinic.

On Wednesday morning, 7 August 2024, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a Border Police escort and two diggers at the community of Birin, northeast of the town of Yatta. The forces demolished and confiscated the residential tents of four families numbering 30 people in total, including 15 minors. Three of the families, numbering 24 people in total, including 13 minors, were left homeless. The forces also demolished and confiscated another unoccupied tent belonging to another family.

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.