Demolitions and confiscations in communities facing expulsion

On Monday, 12 December 2022, at around 1:00 P.M., soldiers arrived in a military vehicle in the area of a-Tabayek, north of the village of Bardalah in the northern Jordan Valley. The soldiers ordered farmers who were busy plowing to stop working, claiming it was a closed military zone. The soldiers confiscated two tractors and towed them to the Bet Shean checkpoint. 

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 two shacks and two tents that were home to four families numbering 27 people in total, including 16 minors, leaving them homeless. The forces also demolished two shacks and two tents the families used as livestock pens.

The Civil Administration previously demolished the home of one of the families on 3 October 2022.

On Tuesday, 6 December 2022, at around 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort and a digger at the community of Birin, located northeast of the town of Yatta in Hebron District, and uprooted 55 eight-year-old olive trees in a grove belonging to a Palestinian family from Hebron, claiming it was on state land.

The forces then moved on to the community of khirbet a-Safai al-Foqa, which is located in Masafer Yatta inside the area the military declared Firing Zone 918. The forces dismantled and confiscated two tents used as classrooms for the community’s schoolchildren since Israel demolished their school two weeks earlier.

On Saturday, 3 Dec. 2022, at around 4:00 P.M., a representative of the Jordan Valley regional settlement council came with a military escort to an agricultural plot northeast of the village of al-Hadidiyah and ordered Palestinian farmers who were plowing the land to stop. He also demanded that a village resident who was driving a tractor follow him and the soldiers. When the convoy neared Khallet Makhul, residents blocked the way and entered into an argument with the soldiers that lasted about an hour. The vehicles then continued on their way, with the resident driving the tractor to a nearby military base, where it was confiscated on the grounds it had been used to work land in a closed military zone.

On Wednesday, 30 Nov. 2022, at around 8:30 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a Border Police escort to the community of Lifjim (al-Fajam), which lies east of the village of ‘Aqraba in Nablus District. The forces demolished three shacks, leaving three families numbering 19 people in total, 9 of them minors, homeless. They also demolished two shacks and a tent that were used as livestock enclosures and a livestock pen belonging to the same families, as well as an agricultural storage shed and three livestock pens belonging to another family and an agricultural structure belonging to a resident of the village of a-Zawiyah.

On Tuesday, 29 Nov. 2022, at around 7:30 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military and Border Police escort and a bulldozer to the area of Isteih in the village of ‘Ein a-Duyuk a-Tahta, which lies in the southern Jordan Valley. The forces demolished two homes by power of Military Order 1797, leaving a young couple and a family of five, three of them minors, homeless.

On Monday, 28 November 2022, at around 12:00 P.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military and Border Police escort, three diggers and a bulldozer to the neighborhood of Khallet al-‘Eidah in eastern Hebron. The forces demolished the homes of two families numbering 16 people in total, 12 of them minors.


From there, they continued to the area of Wadi al-A’war, which lies near the community of Birin, northeast of the town of Yatta, and demolished an agricultural structure belonging to a family from Hebron.

This morning, 23 November 2022, at around 9:00 A.M., Israel demolished a primary school built in the Palestinian community of Khirbet a-Safai al-Foqa in Masafer Yatta, in the part of the South Hebron Hills the military declared Firing Zone 918. The forces removed the tables and chairs from the classrooms and confiscated them. The demolition was greenlighted by Supreme Court Justice Isaac Amit, who cancelled the temporary order he issued yesterday freezing the demolition. Read more

On Monday, 14 November 2022, at around 7:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military and Border Police escort and a bulldozer to the neighborhood of a-Taybah in the town of Tarqumya. The forces demolished a shack that was home to a family of five, including three minors, and vandalized three solar panels and four generators belonging to the same family. They also demolished a shack that was home to a young couple, and vandalized six water containers and three solar panels the couple owns. In addition, the forces demolished six tents that farmers use for resting, and confiscated a truck that was transporting tents donated to the farmers by the Palestinian Authority’s National Commission against the Wall and the Settlements.

On Sunday, 13 Nov. 2022, at around 7:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a military escort and a bulldozer to the community of ‘Arab al-‘Anani wa al-Jabour, which lies near the village of Deir Ballut in Salfit District. The forces demolished three residential tents and left three families numbering 15 people in total, seven of them minors, homeless. They also demolished three livestock enclosures belonging to the same families.


The community of ‘Arab al-‘Anani wa al-Jabour consists of seven families numbering 35 people in total, 17 of them minors. The residents live permanently on the site, in tents, and live off shepherding. Their children attend school at Deir Ballut.

On Wednesday, 9 November 2022, at around 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came to the community of Khallet al-Furn in the South Hebron Hills and confiscated three containers that a family of five used for agriculture.

About two hours later, the forces went to the area between Khallet al-Furn and the community of Birin, where they dismantled and confiscated a tin roof that a farmer had added to an old agricultural structure on his land.