Ethnic cleansing of Palestinian communities and lone families in the West Bank (59 communities as of 16 Mar 2026)
Demolitions and confiscations in communities facing expulsion
Thousands of people – residents of dozens of Palestinian communities located throughout Area C, the West Bank – face imminent expulsion by Israeli authorities on a variety of pretexts. The live blog will pool the regular updates we get from B’Tselem field researchers regarding the communities and any attempts by authorities to expel them. Click on the number of a community cluster and then on the tent icon marked on the map for further information about communities facing the risk of expulsion.
The information in the blog reflects the latest state affairs known to us and is updated as we receive new data from the field. For more on the communities facing expulsion, click here.
The information in the blog reflects the latest state affairs known to us and is updated as we receive new data from the field. For more on the communities facing expulsion, click here.
3 Nov 2022
Israeli forces demolish livestock enclosure, water container and fence in Palestinian community of ‘Arab al-Fureijat, Hebron District
On Thursday, 3 November 2022, at around 8:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military and Border Police escort and a bulldozer to the community of ‘Arab al-Fureijat in Hebron District. The forces demolished an outhouse, a fence around a plot of land and a water container, all belonging to a family of 13. They also demolished a livestock enclosure belonging to a Palestinian citizen of Israel.
3 Nov 2022
Civil Administration again forces families from Khirbet Humsah al-Foqa in Jordan Valley out of homes citing military training needs
On Thursday, 27 October 2022, at around 9:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived at the community of Khirbet Humsah al-Foqa in the northern Jordan Valley with a military escort. The residents were forced to relocate after Israel demolished their community in July 2021. The forces handed six families with a total of 41 members, including 27 minors, orders to evacuate their homes for four days, on 1-3 November and on 9 November, between the hours of 6:00 A.M. and 4:00 P.M., to make way for military training near their homes.
Military training in the communities’ territory is a deliberate harassment of their residents in an attempt to drive them out of the area. The last evacuation of community residents on the pretext of training occurred in July 2022.
The training eventually took place at a large distance from the community, and since only the men who take care of the flock remain in the community during this season, they just removed the flock from it.
31 Oct 2022
Civil Administration demolishes two structures still under construction set to house 43 people, one in the village of al-Baq’ah and the other in the community of Um Lasafa, Hebron District
On 31 October 2022, at around 8:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came to the village of al-Baq’ah, Hebron District, with a military and Border Police escort. The forces demolished a three-story building, still under construction, set to house three families with a total of 30 members, including 20 minors.
The forces then continued south, to the community of Um Lasafa, where they demolished a house that was still under construction and was to be the future home of a family of 13, including three minors.
25 Oct 2022
Civil Administration demolishes six seasonal residential tents and two tents used as livestock enclosures in South Hebron Hills
After the Civil Administration demolished a home under construction in Bani Na'im, the forces carried on to the community of al-Jawaya, southeast of the town of Yatta in the South Hebron Hills, where they demolished two tents used as livestock enclosures.
The forces then went to the community of Kh. Wadi Ejheish, southeast of the village of a-Samu’ in the South Hebron Hills, where they destroyed six seasonal residential tents belonging to five families with a total of 24 members, including 11 minors.
During the demolition, the forces fired tear gas canisters at residents who gathered at the site to try and stop the demolition.
25 Oct 2022
Civil Administration demolishes family home still under construction in Bani Na'im
On Tuesday, 25 October 2022, at around 9:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort and two diggers at the southern neighborhood of the town of Bani Na’im, located in an area known as a-Nabi Yakin Tomb, in Hebron District. The forces demolished a two-story building under construction set to house a family of 10, including five minors.
During the demolition, the forces fired tear gas canisters and live bullets and threw stun grenades at local residents who had gathered at the site in an attempt to stop the demolition. The forces also beat and arrested one of the locals.
24 Oct 2022
Settlement council official and soldier loading solar equipment to be confiscated. Photo by 'Aref Dagharmeh, B'Tselem, 24 Oct. 2022
Settlement regional council of Jordan Valley confiscates solar power generation system belonging to the community of Kh. Wadi al-Faw in the northern Jordan Valley
On Monday, 24 October 2022, at around 10:30 A.M., officials from the Jordan Valley Regional Council, representing Israeli settlements in the area, came with a military escort to the community of Kh. Wadi al-Faw, south of Kh. ‘Ein al-Hilweh in the northern Jordan Valley. The council officials and soldiers confiscated a trailer and a solar power generation system that had been given to the community by COMET ME. On 20 September 2022, soldiers confiscated equipment intended for the same solar power system, as well as the pickup truck transporting it, after settlement council representatives summoned them there.
21 Oct 2022
The destroyed dirt road. Photo: ‘Aref Daraghmeh, B’Tselem
Jordan Valley settlements regional council destroyed agricultural dirt road in northern Jordan Valley
On Friday morning, 21 October 2022, representatives of the Jordan Valley settlements regional council arrived at a dirt road about a kilometer long that Palestinian farmers recently dug near the community of Khallet Khader in al-Farisiyah, the northern Jordan Valley, and rendered it unusable.
19 Oct 2022
The truck on its way to the military camp. Photo courtesy of area residents
Soldiers detain truck transporting building materials in Kardalah, Jordan Valley, for several hours
On Wednesday, 19 October 2022, at around 2:00 P.M., military forces came to the village of Kardalah in the Jordan Valley and detained a truck driver transporting building materials. The forces ordered him to drive the truck to a military camp near the settlement of Mehola, where he was held for several hours before being allowed to leave with the truck.
16 Oct 2022
Civil Administration orders about 350 trees uprooted in the area of Um Kbeish, south of Khirbet ‘Atuf in the northern Jordan Valley
On Sunday, 16 October 2022, farmers in the area of Um Kbeish, south of Khirbet ‘Atuf, found “Warning of Required Evacuation” orders in their plots of land. The orders related to about 350 trees, some of them olive trees, planted in an area of about 100 dunams, claiming the land is state land. On 6 October 2022, Civil Administration personnel placed an order to uproot some 140 trees in an olive grove in the area, based on the same claim.
6 Oct 2022
Civil Administration orders about 140 trees uprooted from Palestinian olive grove in Jordan Valley
On Thursday morning, 6 October 2022, Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort to an olive grove that lies on land owned jointly by several families in the area of Um Kbeish, which is located south of the community of Khirbet ‘Atuf in the northern Jordan Valley. In the grove, the forces placed a “Warning of Required Evacuation” order relating to about 140 olive trees planted there by one of the landowners, a resident of Tammun, claiming the land is state land.
6 Oct 2022
Home demolition in Khllet Taha. Photo by Nasser Nawaj’ah, B’Tselem.
Civil Administration demolishes home, leaving family of six, including four children, homeless
On Thursday, 6 October 2022, at around 9:30, Civil Administration personnel escorted by Border Police officers and soldiers and equipped with a digger and a bulldozer arrived at the area of Kallet Taha, near the down of Deir Samit, west of Hebron. The forces demolished a cinderblock structure housing a family of six, including four children. The forces fired in the air and threw stun grenades and tear gas canisters at local residents who protested the demolition, arresting two of them.
3 Oct 2022
The possessions of one of the families after the demolition. Photo: Iyad Hadad, B’Tselem, 3 Oct. 2022
Israel demolishes homes of 4 families in Wadi a-Siq, leaving 24 Palestinians, 14 of them minors, homeless
On Thursday, 8 December 2022, at around 6:45 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a Border Police escort, a bulldozer and two crane trucks to the community of Wadi a-Siq east of Ramallah. The forces dismantled and confiscated tents that were home to four families numbering 24 people in total, including 14 minors, leaving them homeless. The forces also demolished three tents and a livestock pen, vandalized a water tank and confiscated two solar panels and two generators belonging to two of the families. Additionally, they demolished two tents that two other families used as livestock pens.
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