Demolitions and confiscations in communities facing expulsion

On Wednesday morning, 17 September 2025, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort and two bulldozers at the community of Khirbet Khilet a-Dabe’ in Masafer Yatta, South Hebron Hills. The Israeli forces demolished three stone houses belonging to three families, numbering 19 people in total, including 12 minors. The Civil Administration demolished the home of one of the families in June 2025. The Israeli forces also demolished a house under construction, intended to house a family of three, whose house Israel demolished in May 2025. In June 2025, the Civil Administration demolished the tent the family pitched after its home was demolished. The Israeli forces also demolished an outhouse and two sun shelters near other houses in the community.

In May 2025, Israel demolished most of the homes and buildings in the community. On 26 May 2025, settlers established an outpost near the houses and attempted to force out the community. After harassing the residents for about a week, the settlers were removed from the site by the military on 1 June 2025.

On Monday, 8 September 2025, Civil Administration personnel, accompanied by soldiers and equipped with a bulldozer, arrived at Khirbet a-Tawayel, Nablus district. The Israeli forces destroyed two tents belonging to two families numbering 11 people in total, including seven minors, leaving them homeless. The forces also destroyed two sheep pens that were the families’ source of income and an outhouse belonging to one of them. This is the fourth demolition suffered by the two families since the beginning of the year.

On Thursday, 28 August 2025, Civil Administration personnel, accompanied by soldiers and equipped with two bulldozers, arrived in the village of a-Zubeidat in the central Jordan Valley and demolished two shacks used as a produce packing facility. The facility served as a source of income for three families, numbering 26 people in total, including seven minors.

On Thursday, 21 August 2025, at around 8:00 A.M., Civil Administration and Jordan Valley settlement council personnel, accompanied by soldiers and equipped with two bulldozers, arrived at the community of Khirbet ‘Ein al-Hilweh in the northern Jordan Valley. The Israeli forces demolished the residential shacks of four families, numbering 12 people in total, including three minors. The Israeli forces also demolished five cattle pens, nine tents used to store animal feed and equipment, four outhouses, and a solar system donated by CometMe, belonging to the same families. During the demolition, the forces destroyed eight water tanks, items inside the shacks, and troughs used to feed and water the families’ livestock. The forces also destroyed three shacks used for raising livestock owned by a woman from another family.

On Tuesday, 5 August 2025, at around 8:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel, accompanied by soldiers and equipped with a bulldozer and an excavator, arrived in the village of al-’Aqabah in the northern Jordan Valley and demolished the foundations of a school under construction funded by the French Development Agency. Construction began about a year ago, and since then, Civil Administration personnel have confiscated tools and equipment from the site.

Later that day, Civil Administration personnel, accompanied by soldiers and equipped with a pickup truck with a towed trailer, arrived in the area south of the village of al-'Aqabah. The Israeli forces dismantled one of the tents belonging to a family of eight, including three minors, and confiscated the tent poles, chairs, and a generator.

On Monday, 4 August 2025, at around 9:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel, accompanied by soldiers and equipped with a bulldozer, arrived at the Abu Dahuk-Jahalin community in Deir Hajla, Jericho district. The Israeli forces demolished five shacks that housed five families numbering 25 people in total, including 15 minors, leaving them homeless. The Israeli forces also demolished four shacks used as sheep pens and owned by one of the families.

The family had lived for decades at a nearby site about 10 kilometers away. They were forced out of there by the military in 2020.

Following the demolition and repeated harassment by settlers, which included raids on the community and theft of sheep, the families were forced to leave their place of residence again.

On Thursday, 24 July 2025, at around 8:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel, accompanied by soldiers and equipped with two excavators, arrived at the community of Khirbet 'Ein al-Hilweh in the Jordan Valley. The forces demolished a residential tent, a tent used as a livestock pen, a livestock enclosure, an outhouse, a water tank and three solar panels belonging to a family of five, including two minors, who were left without shelter. The forces also demolished a storage tent belonging to another family.

From there, the forces continued north to the village of 'Ein al-Beida, where they demolished two tents used as resting shelters for farmworkers and an outhouse.

On Wednesday, 23 July 2025, at around 6:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel, accompanied by soldiers and equipped with a bulldozer, arrived at the community of Wadi Qatunyah in the al-Khalayel area, southwest of the village of al-Mughayir in Ramallah District. The forces demolished three residential tents and two livestock pens belonging to a family of seven, including two minors. The family was previously driven out of the site by soldiers and settlers in December 2024 and forced to move into the village of al-Mughayir.

The forces then proceeded north to the Abu ‘Aliya family’s residential compound, also in the al-Khalayel area, where they demolished seven homes belonging to five families – 38 people in total, including 17 children – leaving them without shelter. The forces also destroyed three livestock pens, two sheds, a tent and shack used as kitchens, and an outhouse belonging to one of the families.

On Monday, 30 June 2025, Civil Administration personnel, accompanied by Border Police officers and equipped with a bulldozer, arrived at the community of Khirbet a-Twayel in the Jordan Valley. The forces demolished three residential tents belonging to three families, numbering 21 people in total, including 11 minors. They also demolished four tents used as livestock pens, two outhouses, and four water tanks belonging to the same families.

On Wednesday, 11 June 2025, Civil Administration personnel, accompanied by soldiers and Border Police officers and equipped with a bulldozer, arrived at the community of Khirbet Khallet a-Dabe' community in Masafer Yatta. The forces demolished the homes of four families, numbering 32 people, including 22 minors, as well as residential tents erected by five other families, numbering 16 people, including five minors. These families had set up the tents after the Civil Administration demolished their homes and most of the structures in the village in early May. The forces also demolished two kitchens, two outhouses, two water tanks, and a barbed-wire fence belonging to the first two families. All nine families were left without shelter.

On 26 May 2025, settlers established a new outpost near the remaining homes and tried to drive the residents out. On 1 June 2025, the military declared the area a “closed military zone,” expelled all the activists staying there to protect the residents, and dismantled the outpost.

On Wednesday, 28 May 2025, Civil Administration personnel, escorted by soldiers and Border Police officers and equipped with bulldozers, arrived at the community of a-Jawaya in the South Hebron Hills. The forces demolished two agricultural structures – one made of concrete blocks and the other of tin, as well as a livestock enclosure and a cave belonging to one of the families.

On Wednesday, 21 May 2025, Civil Administration personnel, escorted by soldiers and equipped with bulldozers, arrived at the village of Furush Beit Dajan in the Jordan Valley and demolished a pool used to irrigate a fruit tree orchard and greenhouses. The forces then proceeded to another irrigation pool, about 500 meters away. They found the landowner had already demolished the pool after receiving a demolition order in January 2025, for fear the forces would also demolish the greenhouses it irrigated.