“Union for Justice”: The Occupation Carried Out More Than (42) Demolition Operations in the West Bank During Last February
5/3/2026 – Union for Justice Foundation
The “Union for Justice Foundation” stated that the Israeli occupation authorities increased the pace of demolishing Palestinian homes and facilities in the West Bank during the past month, particularly in areas classified as (C) according to the Oslo Agreement and in the occupied city of Jerusalem.
The Foundation indicated that these demolitions led to the displacement of hundreds of citizens and caused others to lose their sources of livelihood, as the demolition operations targeted a number of industrial, commercial, agricultural, and livestock facilities. It stressed that the occupation authorities continue to use the demolition of homes and facilities as part of a general policy aimed at expelling Palestinians from the West Bank and replacing them with settlers, and as a punitive measure against the families of martyrs and prisoners.
“Union for Justice” notes that through the escalating demolition operations, which have become part of the daily Palestinian scene, the occupation authorities seek to confine and concentrate Palestinians in specific areas to facilitate control over them, and to create new spaces that allow for the expansion of settlements and the establishment of buffer zones separating these settlements from Palestinian communities.
According to the monitoring of the “Union for Justice Foundation,” the occupation authorities carried out more than (42) demolition operations in various areas of the West Bank during last February, resulting in the destruction of dozens of facilities, in addition to issuing dozens of demolition and construction stop notices to citizens.
Regarding the distribution of demolition operations across the Palestinian governorates, “Union for Justice” recorded (13) demolition operations in the Jerusalem Governorate, (13) in the Hebron Governorate, (4) in the Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate, (3) in the Nablus Governorate, (3) in the Jenin Governorate, (2) in Bethlehem, (2) in the Jordan Valley, one in Qalqilya, and another in the Salfit Governorate.
Alongside the demolition operations in the West Bank, the occupation continues to destroy and blow up buildings in the areas it still controls in Gaza, which constitute about 60% of the area of the Strip, despite the ceasefire entering its second phase.
Regarding the nature of the facilities targeted by demolition operations, the Foundation explained that most of them are inhabited homes belonging to Palestinian citizens, ranging from a single room to multi-story buildings and residential apartments, in addition to Bedouin dwellings made of tin, barracks, agricultural rooms, sheep pens, water wells, commercial shops, factories, and retaining walls.
The “Union for Justice Foundation” publishes below the details of the demolition operations it monitored during last February.
Demolition of Houses and Residential Apartments
1/2/2026: Occupation bulldozers demolish a house in the “Shaab al-Beer” area west of the town of Tarqumiya, west of Hebron, with an area of 600 meters, belonging to citizen Bassam Fathi Al-Jaafra, housing 18 individuals and consisting of three floors.
3/2/2026: Occupation bulldozers demolish a house with an area of 80 square meters in the Wadi al-Sheikh area in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, belonging to citizen Ahmad Muhammad Hussein Al-Allami. They also demolished a cave that had sheltered his uncles.
5/2/2026: Occupation bulldozers demolish a house in the town of Beit Awa, west of Hebron, with an area of approximately 600 square meters, consisting of two floors—the first comprising commercial shops and the second under construction—belonging to citizen Muhammad Awni Al-Sweiti.
5/2/2026: Occupation bulldozers demolish two houses in Khallet al-Furn in the village of Beirin, east of Hebron, belonging to citizen Hazem Abu Najma, in addition to filling in a water well and destroying facilities and agricultural crops surrounding the two houses.
9/2/2026: Occupation bulldozers demolish the house of citizen Ahmad Abdul Aziz Qadah, consisting of one floor built on an area of half a dunam, under the pretext of construction without a permit in the town of Shuqba, west of Ramallah.
10/2/2026: Occupation bulldozers demolish three houses—two belonging to the Qabha family and a third belonging to citizen Amir Atta—in the “Khor al-Dab‘a” neighborhood in the town of Barta‘a, southwest of Jenin, on the grounds of construction without a permit.
11/2/2026: Occupation bulldozers demolish the house of citizen Tariq Yasser Masalmeh, consisting of one floor with an area of 180 square meters in the town of Beit Awa, Hebron district.
11/2/2026: Occupation bulldozers demolish the house of citizen Raed Al-Shawamra in the village of Deir al-Asal al-Fouqa, Hebron district. The house consists of one floor and exceeds 200 square meters in area.
15/2/2026: Occupation bulldozers demolish the house of citizen Ammar Al-Badawi Abu Sharib in the village of Jiyus, east of Qalqilya, with an area of 160 square meters and inhabited by 17 individuals, under the pretext of construction without a permit.
17/2/2026: Occupation bulldozers demolish the house of citizen Anas Mar‘i in the town of Qarawat Bani Hassan, west of Salfit. The house consists of two floors and has an area of 250 square meters, under the pretext of construction without a permit.
17/2/2026: Occupation bulldozers demolish the house of citizen Yasser Al-Saber in the Upper Ta‘awun area in the city of Nablus. The house consists of two floors with an area of 190 square meters for each floor, on the grounds of construction in an area classified as “C,” despite family maps indicating that the area is classified as “B”.
17/2/2026: Occupation bulldozers demolish a residential building consisting of two floors in the “Ard al-Deir” area in the town of Al-Khader, south of Bethlehem, belonging to the brothers Iyad and Alaa Omar Issa Abu Ghalyoun, on the grounds of construction without a permit.
17/2/2026: Occupation bulldozers demolish a residential building belonging to the Salhab family in the Al-Hara’iq area adjacent to the “Haggai” settlement south of the city of Hebron. The building consists of two adjoining structures—the first has three floors containing 6 residential apartments, and the second has two floors containing 4 apartments—belonging to him and his brothers and housing more than 40 individuals.
19/2/2026: Occupation bulldozers demolish a house under construction with an area of approximately 130 square meters, belonging to citizen Haneen Rafiq Fuqha in the village of Ein al-Bayda in the Northern Jordan Valley.
24/2/2026: Occupation bulldozers demolish three houses and an agricultural facility in the town of Beit Liqya, west of Ramallah / houses belonging to citizens: Amjad Suleiman Mafarja, Ayyham Mafarja, and Anas Mafarja. They also demolished a facility (a chicken barracks) belonging to citizen Suleiman Assi.
Demolition of the Houses of the Families of Martyrs and Prisoners
2/2/2026: Occupation forces blow up the house of the martyr Mahmoud Youssef Abed in the town of Halhul, north of Hebron / he was martyred on the tenth of July last year.
17/2/2026: Occupation bulldozers demolish the house of the family of the martyr Raafat Dawasa in the town of Al-Sila Al-Harithiya, west of the city of Jenin, consisting of 3 floors, after evacuating the neighboring houses / he was martyred on 18 August 2024 following the bombing of a vehicle he was riding in.
18/2/2026: Occupation forces blow up the house of the family of the martyr Walid Sabarneh in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron. The house is located on the top floor of a three-story building / he was martyred in October “November” last year.
Demolish Your Own Facility
In some cases, especially in the city of Jerusalem, citizens are forced to demolish their own homes to avoid paying large sums of money to the occupation authorities if their machinery carries out the demolition, which leaves severe psychological effects.
1/2/2026: Occupation authorities force Jerusalemite citizen Yasser Maher Da‘na to forcibly demolish his home in the Al-Sal‘a neighborhood in Jabal al-Mukabber, southeast of the occupied city of Jerusalem, on the grounds of construction without a permit. The house shelters 4 individuals and has an area of approximately 100 square meters.
6/2/2026: Occupation authorities force Jerusalemite citizen Jalal Al-Tawil to demolish a room with an area of 30 square meters in the town of Silwan, south of Al-Aqsa Mosque, under the pretext of construction without a permit / the room has existed for more than 40 years and forms an essential part of the house.
7/2/2026: Occupation authorities force Jerusalemite citizen Majed Al-Salaimeh to demolish his home in the Al-Ashqariya neighborhood in the Old City of Jerusalem, which shelters 4 individuals. The house has existed for 8 years, under the pretext of construction without a permit. They also forced them to pay financial fines exceeding 100,000 shekels.
8/2/2026: Occupation authorities force Jerusalemite citizen Raed Abdul Aziz Dabash to demolish his home and his son’s home himself in the town of Sur Baher, southeast of occupied Jerusalem, under the pretext of construction without a permit / the area of the two houses is approximately 90 square meters, and 8 individuals live in them.
13/2/2026: Occupation authorities force Jerusalemite citizen Samir Arar to demolish his home himself in the town of Jabal al-Mukabber, southeast of occupied Jerusalem, on the grounds of construction without a permit / its area is 80 square meters and seven individuals live in it.
14/2/2026: Occupation authorities force Jerusalemite citizen Rami Al-Bakri to demolish his home himself on Al-Zaytouna Street in the town of Beit Hanina, north of occupied Jerusalem, on the grounds of construction without a permit / its area is 35 square meters and it consists of a room, kitchen, and bathroom.
17/2/2026: Occupation authorities force the family of Jerusalemite Ahmad Khader to demolish his home themselves in the town of Sur Baher, south of occupied Jerusalem, to avoid the demolition of the house by occupation bulldozers and paying an amount of approximately 80,000 shekels (about 25,000 US dollars) if self-demolition is not carried out / the house has an area of 80 square meters, was built about 10 years ago, and is inhabited by three individuals.
21/2/2026: Occupation authorities force citizen Majdi Atiya to demolish his home in the town of Al-Issawiya, northeast of occupied Jerusalem / its area is approximately 100 square meters, and Atiya has lived in it for four years with his wife and two children.
Demolition of Industrial and Commercial Facilities
2/2/2026: Occupation bulldozers demolish 6 commercial shops and a horse stable belonging to citizen Adel Al-Jahalin in Wadi al-Juheir near the (Container) checkpoint east of occupied Jerusalem.
9/2/2026: Occupation bulldozers demolish a vehicle repair workshop in the town of Beit Hanina, north of occupied Jerusalem.
10/2/2026: Occupation bulldozers demolish a commercial shop in the Bir Ayyoub neighborhood and a number of walls and iron roofs in the Al-Bustan neighborhood in the town of Silwan, south of occupied Jerusalem.
11/2/2026: Occupation bulldozers demolish a poultry farm belonging to citizen Ma‘an Ahmad Salim Droubi in the village of Shoufa, southeast of Tulkarm, with an area of about 260 square meters, containing about 3,000 laying hens, and constituting the main source of income for its owner and his family.
16/2/2026: Occupation bulldozers demolish a barracks for selling car parts in the city of Beit Jala, west of Bethlehem, belonging to citizen Murad Hussein Issa.
25/2/2026: Occupation bulldozers demolish a number of buildings and commercial shops at the entrance to the village of Anza, south of Jenin, belonging to citizen Nasser Al-Awad, in addition to Al-Adel Café at the entrance to the village.
Demolition of Agricultural and Livestock Facilities
8/2/2026: Occupation bulldozers demolish residential and agricultural facilities belonging to six families in the areas of Ein al-Hilweh, Al-Burj, and Al-Mita in the Northern Jordan Valley, including tents, residential homes and their annexes, in addition to livestock pens.
9/2/2026: Occupation bulldozers demolish an agricultural room in the town of Ni‘lin, west of Ramallah, belonging to citizen Raed Surour, who had rebuilt the room on the rubble of his house, which the occupation demolished along with his brother’s house in April of last year.
9/2/2026: Occupation bulldozers demolish a barracks in the village of Surra, west of Nablus, belonging to citizen Maher Zuhdi Abu Turabi.
9/2/2026: Occupation bulldozers demolish a barracks belonging to a citizen from the Sultan family in the Al-Buweira area east of Hebron.
11/2/2026: Occupation bulldozers raid the “Al-Shaqaf” area in the town of Al-Judeira, northwest of Jerusalem, demolishing an agricultural room and a number of walls and leveling areas of land.
11/2/2026: Occupation bulldozers demolish four homes belonging to Salem, Ibrahim, Khaled, and Mahmoud Al-Budour, housing more than 25 individuals in the Al-Qarashiya area in the Badia of Yatta, south of Hebron. They also demolished two barracks and sheep pens and caused the death and injury of a number of sheep during the demolition operation.
11/2/2026: In the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, occupation bulldozers demolish an agricultural room and fill in a water collection pool used for agricultural purposes in the Thaghret Al-Shabak area north of the town, belonging to citizen Nabil Baraghith, despite the presence of a decision from the occupation court not to demolish.
11/2/2026: Occupation bulldozers demolish a number of agricultural rooms located in lands classified as (B) in the town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus.
16/2/2026: Occupation bulldozers demolish an agricultural room in the town of Shuqba, west of Ramallah, belonging to citizen Nizar Shalash.
17/2/2026: Occupation bulldozers demolish a number of agricultural facilities in the town of Arab Al-Jahalin east of the city of Jerusalem, as part of attempts to displace Palestinians from their lands and restrict agricultural activity around settlements.
The “Union for Justice Foundation” affirms that all demolition operations carried out by the occupation authorities in the Palestinian territories, whether in the West Bank or the Gaza Strip, regardless of the justification or pretext, constitute grave violations and contradict the provisions of the United Nations and the principles of international human rights law, including the right to adequate housing.
“Union for Justice” considers that demolition operations and the accompanying cases of displacement amount to prohibited forcible transfer, which may constitute a war crime under the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court.
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