Union for Justice: Occupation bulldozers demolished (84) structures in the West Bank last month
4/12/2025 – Union for Justice Foundation
The “Union for Justice Foundation” stated that the Israeli authorities, through continuing the demolition of Palestinian structures, seek to implement a set of political and demographic objectives, despite claiming that the demolitions are carried out for administrative and security reasons.
The Foundation explained that the occupation authorities, although they announced the freezing of the “plan to annex the West Bank and impose sovereignty over it” on paper, nevertheless continue to implement this plan on the ground in a gradual manner through a set of measures, foremost among them the demolition of Palestinian structures, alongside land confiscation and the expansion of settlements.
The “Union for Justice” indicates that the occupation authorities, through demolition, seek to confine and concentrate Palestinians in specific areas to facilitate control over them, and to create new spaces to expand settlements and establish buffer zones separating these settlements from Palestinian communities.
Emphasizing that the Israeli government no longer differentiates, through the demolition of Palestinian structures, between areas classified as “C,” “B,” or even “A.”
According to the monitoring of the “Union for Justice Foundation,” the occupation authorities carried out more than (36) demolition operations during last November in various areas of the West Bank, resulting in the destruction of (84) structures.
Regarding the nature of the structures targeted by demolition operations, the Foundation clarified that the majority were inhabited homes belonging to Palestinian citizens, ranging from a single room to multi-storey buildings, in addition to tin dwellings for Bedouins, barracks, agricultural rooms, sheep pens, water wells, commercial shops, showrooms, car washes, and a public park.
Settlers also demolish
For the first time, the “Union for Justice” records settlers entering the arena of demolishing Palestinian structures, a role that was previously exclusive to occupation soldiers who carried out demolition orders after their issuance by the so-called “military commander of the area.”
On the sixth of last November, settlers brought a bulldozer and demolished four barracks “mobile homes” belonging to citizens in the Al-Hathroura Bedouin community east of occupied Jerusalem. On the twenty-eighth of the same month, settlers from the “Susiya” settlement raided Khirbet Wadi Al-Rakhim in the town of Yatta, south of Hebron, and began demolishing a house under construction using manual tools.
Demolition causes massive economic losses
In addition to the displacement of dozens of citizens from their places of residence, and the accompanying psychological harm inflicted on families who have become without shelter, demolition operations result in significant economic damage, especially when commercial structures are targeted.
Economic losses are not limited to the structure itself, the construction of which is costly in the West Bank, but also extend to other repercussions borne by the owner of the structure, particularly if it includes a commercial enterprise that constitutes their sole source of income.
For example, occupation bulldozers demolished last month a chicken-rearing barracks in the village of Umm Al-Rihan west of Jenin, with an area of one thousand square meters. During the demolition, the occupation executed more than 7,000 chickens, and the losses of the farm owner were estimated at more than 500,000 shekels (approximately 150,000 dollars).
Occupation bulldozers also demolished 6 commercial structures comprising 20 commercial shops, owned by the Al-Mahdi, Al-Zagharna, and Al-Jama’in families in the Anab Al-Kabira area on the road linking the towns of Al-Ramadin and Al-Dhahiriya south of Hebron, with the losses of the owners estimated at hundreds of thousands of shekels.
Demolition in Jerusalem… suffering of a different kind
According to the “Union for Justice,” the occupation authorities carried out during the past month (12) demolition operations in the city of Jerusalem alone under the pretext of lack of permits, including cases in which citizens were forced to demolish their homes themselves to avoid paying exorbitant fines imposed on the owner if Israeli bulldozers carried out the demolition.
The occupation municipality in Jerusalem refuses to grant Palestinians building permits, a measure that contravenes international laws and humanitarian conventions that guarantee the right to housing, within the framework of the occupation’s systematic practices to forcibly displace Palestinians from the city of Jerusalem, in exchange for expanding settlements in the city and its surroundings.
According to official statistics, the rate of Israeli approvals for Palestinian building permit applications did not exceed 2%, and Palestinians are not permitted to build on more than 13% of the area of occupied East Jerusalem.
Continued destruction of Jenin Camp
During the past month, occupation bulldozers resumed large-scale demolition operations in Jenin Camp and issued a decision to demolish 24 buildings in the Abdullah Azzam neighborhood west of the camp, including 12 homes that will be demolished entirely.
The occupation had demolished, destroyed, and burned more than 1,600 homes fully and partially in the camp since the beginning of the operation announced by the occupation on 21 January of last year, leading to the displacement of 22,000 residents of the camp to towns and villages of the governorate and a number of neighborhoods in the city of Jenin.
The “Union for Justice Foundation” monitors below the demolition operations carried out by the occupation authorities during last November:
3/11/2025: Occupation bulldozers demolish in the village of Wadi Rahhal southeast of Bethlehem two agricultural rooms and two water wells owned by citizens Fouad Shousha, Hassan Issa Ahmed Salem, and Salah Badaouna.
3/11/2025: Occupation bulldozers demolish, under the pretext of lack of permits, in the village of Al-Walaja west of Bethlehem, two inhabited homes belonging to the Abu Rizq and Rassem families, each with an area of approximately 80 square meters; the first houses 9 individuals, and the second two persons.
4/11/2025: Occupation bulldozers demolish a tourist “villa” belonging to Jerusalemite citizen Mohammed Al-Qanbar and a home belonging to citizen Tamer Awdat in the “Airport” area east of the city of Jericho.
4/11/2025: Occupation authorities force Jerusalemite Mousa Badran from the Al-Bustan neighborhood in Silwan near Al-Aqsa Mosque to forcibly demolish his home to avoid paying exorbitant fines to the occupation municipality; the house has an area of 75 square meters and houses 3 individuals.
4/11/2025: Occupation authorities force the Darbas family in Al-Issawiya in Jerusalem to demolish an animal-rearing pen.
4/11/2025: Occupation bulldozers demolish an agricultural room belonging to citizen Mohammed Youssef Abdel Karim in the town of Budrus, west of Ramallah.
5/11/2025: Occupation bulldozers demolish a number of Bedouin dwellings belonging to members of the Al-Karshan family in the town of Anata east of occupied Jerusalem.
5/11/2025: Occupation bulldozers demolish a chicken-rearing barracks with an area of one thousand square meters in the village of Umm Al-Rihan west of Jenin, located behind the apartheid wall near the town of Ya’bad, and execute 7,000 chickens by placing them in a machine that electrocutes them.
5/11/2025: Occupation bulldozers demolish an agricultural room in the village of Wadi Fukin west of Bethlehem under the pretext of lack of permits, belonging to citizen Mohammed Mousa Manasra.
6/11/2025: Settlers demolish with bulldozers four barracks “mobile homes” belonging to citizens in the Al-Hathroura Bedouin community east of occupied Jerusalem.
6/11/2025: Occupation bulldozers demolish two inhabited homes in the town of Qatanna northwest of occupied Jerusalem, belonging to the brothers Iyad and Ziyad Houshiya; each has an area of approximately 150 square meters and houses no fewer than 20 individuals.
7/11/2025: The occupation municipality forces citizen Abdullah Qara’een to demolish a room in the Wadi Hilweh neighborhood in the town of Silwan under the pretext of lack of permits.
9/11/2025: Occupation bulldozers demolish the two-storey home of prisoner Maher Zuhair in the town of Bruqin west of Salfit Governorate.
12/11/2025: Occupation bulldozers storm the Al-Fakhit community in Masafer Yatta south of Hebron and demolish two residential rooms, a kitchen, a sanitary unit, a sheep pen, and a water well, and destroy a number of tanks and water basins, belonging to citizens Samir and Issa Hammamda, whose family of 7 members has become homeless.
12/11/2025: Occupation bulldozers demolish an inhabited house consisting of two apartments in the village of Al-Walaja west of Bethlehem, belonging to citizen Ihab Sabri Radwan and his son Mazen; the area of each apartment is 120 square meters.
13/11/2025: Occupation bulldozers demolish a “park” in the Sheikh Mountain area in the town of Al-Qubeiba northwest of occupied Jerusalem.
13/11/2025: Occupation bulldozers demolish a vehicle showroom near the town of Arraba south of Jenin.
13/11/2025: Occupation bulldozers demolish the home of citizen Mujahid Affan Dawabsha in the village of Duma south of Nablus, with an area of approximately 200 square meters, housing a family of 5 members.
15/11/2025: Occupation bulldozers demolish a residential structure and two livestock pens belonging to citizen Mohammed Fares Subeih in the Al-Malih community in the northern Jordan Valley.
18/11/2025: Occupation bulldozers demolish a sheep-rearing barracks in the town of Jalbun east of Jenin; its area is 300 square meters and it belongs to citizen Nimr Abu Al-Rubb.
19/11/2025: Occupation bulldozers demolish a car wash belonging to citizen Amer Khalil Abdullah east of the town of Deir Ballut, west of Salfit.
19/11/2025: Occupation bulldozers demolish an agricultural well belonging to citizen Wathiq Taleb Kanaan in the village of Mikhmas, north of occupied Jerusalem, under the pretext of lack of permits.
19/11/2025: Occupation bulldozers demolish a dwelling made of cement and tin with an area of approximately 120 square meters, belonging to citizen Ibrahim Abu Jarrar in the village of Marj Ghazal north of the city of Jericho.
19/11/2025: Occupation bulldozers demolish the home of citizen Raed Hajaj Fheidat, with an area of approximately 100 square meters, in the town of Anata east of occupied Jerusalem, on the pretext of building without a permit.
19/11/2025: Occupation bulldozers demolish the home of citizen Atef Abu Jaish, with an estimated area of approximately 120 square meters, in the village of Furush Beit Dajan east of Nablus; the house consists of one storey and houses 5 individuals.
20/11/2025: Occupation bulldozers demolish 5 agricultural and residential structures in the Nabi Musa wilderness east of Jerusalem: two residential structures and a sheep pen belonging to citizen Mohammed Al-Ma’azi, and another residential structure and a sheep pen belonging to his brother Jamil Al-Ma’azi.
23/11/2025: Occupation bulldozers demolish an “animal farm” and destroy feed bags in Al-Ras Al-Ahmar southeast of Tubas, belonging to citizen Faeq Abu Zein.
25/11/2025: Occupation bulldozers demolish in the town of Al-Khader south of Bethlehem a house under construction consisting of three storeys, with an area of 250 square meters per floor, belonging to citizen Imad Hassan Abu Surra, under the pretext of building without a permit.
26/11/2025: Occupation bulldozers demolish a commercial shop near the Bab Al-Amoud area in occupied Jerusalem belonging to citizen Iyad Abu Asnina.
26/11/2025: Occupation bulldozers demolish six commercial structures comprising 20 commercial shops, owned by the Al-Mahdi, Al-Zagharna, and Al-Jama’in families in the Anab Al-Kabira area on the road linking the towns of Al-Ramadin and Al-Dhahiriya south of Hebron.
26/11/2025: Occupation bulldozers demolish an agricultural structure (a barracks) used as a cattle farm, with an estimated area of no less than three dunams, belonging to citizen Ahmed Bashir in the village of Jinsafut east of Qalqilya.
27/11/2025: Occupation bulldozers demolish an agricultural room with an area of (50) square meters in the “Khallet Al-Natash” area in the Al-Kassara area south of the city of Hebron, and demolish walls and stone terraces, belonging to citizen Jawad Al-Qeimari.
28/11/2025: Settlers from the “Susiya” settlement demolish with manual tools a house under construction made of brick in Khirbet Wadi Al-Rakhim in the town of Yatta south of Hebron, owned by citizen Ahmed Mohammed Hussein Shreiteh.
28/11/2025: Occupation bulldozers demolish 24 homes in the Abdullah Azzam neighborhood west of the camp, including 12 homes that will be demolished entirely.
28/11/2025: The occupation army detonates a room in a house in Al-Far’a Camp south of Tubas.
29/11/2025: Occupation authorities force citizen Mohammed Karshan to demolish his home himself in Al-Salam suburb east of Jerusalem under the pretext of lack of permits.
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