House Demolitions since the Oslo Agreement
September 1993 - 4 March 1998:
| | West Bank | Jerusalem | Total |
| Labor | 197 | 71 | 268 |
| Likud | 248 | 23 | 271 |
| Total | 469 | 96 | 560 |
Breakdown in 1997:
West Bank 181
Jerusalem 16
Total 197
From 1 January 1998 to 4 March 1998:
West Bank 19
Jerusalem 2
Total 21
Numbers are approximate. Data compiled from information given by Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai, Ir Shalem (on Jerusalem), and LAW.
** All these homes were demolished for having no building permits, permits which are difficult or impossible to obtain. The actual political intent of demolishing Palestinian homes is always to restrict natural growth of Palestinian communities, and often because they lie in the path of a settler by-pass road or for lying near the illegal Jewish settlements and military installations of Jerusalem and the West Bank.
For more information or background material on house demolitions, contact LAW at 5824559/5812364, or email at law@lawsociety.org or lawe@netvision.net. Web site: http://www.lawsociety.org/
House Demolitions since 30 July 1997
In the past several months, the Israeli government accelerated its campaign against Palestinian homes in Jerusalem and the West Bank. The demolition of Palestinian homes can be seen as the final necessary step in order to consolidate Israeli control over Jerusalem and the West Bank before the final status negotiations, to cleanse areas of the West Bank of a Palestinian presence in order to negotiate over "empty" land near the settlements and by-pass roads.
Totals:
Total Demolitions: 93 houses demolished
West Bank: 76 homes demolished, not including displaced Bedouin or cave-dwellers in Yatta
Jerusalem: 17 homes (2 unconfirmed)
Estimated total of displaced persons as a result of demolitions: Over 413, including displaced Bedouin and cave-dwellers in Yatta village.
West Bank: 340
Jerusalem: 73
31 July
1 Kattana
3 August
2 Anata, Jerusalem (in West Bank)
Abdul Kader Omar Mohammed Ali
1 al Ram, Jerusalem (in West Bank)
Mustafa Abu Sneineh (in Dahiyyet al Qabat area)
4 August
2 al Issawiya, Jerusalem - homes lay in path of E-1 settlement plan
1 Shufat, Jerusalem, 40 people displaced
2 Azzariya, Jerusalem (in West Bank)
5 August
1 al Zaim (unconfirmed)
3 Sair/Bani Naim, Hebron, 24 people displaced - 2 lay in path of settler by-pass road #35. 1 by mistake in Area B
7 August
2 Kattana, Ramallah, 22 people displaced - near settlement of Givat Ze'ev
1 Fassayel, Jericho
1 Biddou, near Ramallah
13 August
5 Shu'fat Refugee Camp, Jerusalem, 9 people displaced, near Pisgat Ze'ev settlement
4 in Hussan and Furdeis, Bethlehem
2 (?) Anata (unconfirmed)
14 August
5 Nebi Samuel, Ramallah, 30 people displaced, near new settlement
- Mohammed Eid Barakat
- Eid Mohammed Eid
- Ayyed Mohammed Eid
- Ra'ed Ahmad Barakat
- Mohammed Eid
1 Azzariya, Jerusalem (in West Bank)
- Abdullah Khalil Abu Fariah
1 Bir Naballa, Ramallah
1 Jahalin family removed from Mishor Adumim industrial area
18 August
1 Bani Naim, Hebron
- 1 partial demolition, 200 meters addition, no prior warning, near settler by-pass road #60
Ne'man Shabani, owner
Three months ago another demolition with no prior notice on same property, Umran Shabani
1 Beit Omar, partially completed house and well
Abu Ayyash family, owners
1 Sair
1 Hebron
25 August
2 al Za'ayim village, near Jerusalem (West Bank), in path of proposed E-1 settlement plan
Mohammed Abu Hawa, 9 people living in home
Sharif Sheweiki, 11 people living
3 in al Ta'amera village, near Bethlehem
Talib Khlil al Zir
Daoud al Zir
Hussein al Zir
2 Nahalin village, near Bethlehem
Mohammed Shakarna
Hamze Fanoon
Five other homes targeted for demolition, but not demolished on this day as a result of resistance and clashes on the part of area residents.
26 August
3 Ras al Amoud
Yassir Jabari
Tayseer Jabari
Ali Abu Suweiye
2 Qusra village, near Nablus, lie near Magdalim settlement
Amer Mahmoud Jabali
Marmar Mahmoud Jabali
28 August
Beit Dajan, near Nablus
50 military vehicles participated in the demolition
Qanan Mohammed Qanan, three rooms with 10 people living + storage rooms in the garden
Ribhi Ramadan Abul Kabesh, 3 storage rooms used to house 400 sheep
Yussef Abul Kabesh, 2 barns, detained for resisting the demolition
Sliman Abu Kabesh, 2 houses demolished, unfinished
Abdul Karim Abu Thabid, reservoir destroyed
Destroyed all potable water tanks for the three houses destroyed
Der al Hatab, near Nablus
150 dunums confiscated and bulldozed by settlers from Elon More to construct a cemetary for Jewish settlers.
28 September
1 elementary school destroyed, serving Jahalin as-Sara'ia Bedouin tribe, near Jericho.
demolition in preparation for eviction to the new Jahalin site near the Jerusalem Municipality garbage dump
October 1
3 Yatta, unfinished homes destroyed
14 October
2 in Beit Omar, near Aroub Refugee camp, near Bethlehem
Abu Maria and sons
15 October
1 Zatara, near Bethlehem
28 October
2 Zatara, near Bethlehem
1 Marmala, near Bethlehem
10 November
1 Blacksmith workshop and 1 plaster factory, Arkoub village, near Bethlehem, to make way for settlement expansion
Al Sha'eed Ribhi al Amouri
12 November
13 families living in caves in Yatta village, near Hebron, evicted by Israeli army, caves bulldozed.
13 November
6 tents destroyeed of Jahalin Bedouin, families evicted into desert.
14 November
1 Bani Naim, near Hebron
1 Beit Omar, near Bethlehem
18 November
1 food-products factory in el Ram, near Jerusalem (WB)
Yaacoub al Sharabati
1 house, adjacent to factory
Nassir Ghaith, owner
19 November
Ka'abni and Jahalin Bedouin in Wadi Qelt, near Jericho
10 tents destroyed and Bedouin removed from area. 2 tractors confiscation used for carrying water
1 house, Anata village, near Jerusalem (WB)
Owned by Walid and Yussuf al Rifai'i
21 November
1 Home confiscated in Old City of Jerusalem
owned by al Tirhi family in Muslem Quarter to make Israeli police station
24 November
1 el Khader village, near Bethlehem
Abdel Salam Ahmed Abdel Salam
1 el Walaja, near Bethlehem
Khader Ahmad Dar Hassan, demolished extension to house
25 November
1 house and small aluminum workshop, north of Jerusalem
26 November
Destroyed wall around a house in Issawiya village, Jerusalem
Hafez Abu Raiyyali
27 November
1 Wadi Joz, Jerusalem
Samir Ishaq Hijazzi
1 Halhoul
Nabil al Faroukh, 14 people living in home, near bypass road #60
1998
3 February:
- A horse riding academy, owned by Ibrahim Mohammed Arifai', close to Anata village in Jerusalem. He was given no prior warning of the demolition.
- The home of Kayed Rashid Abu Sara in Jaba' near Ramallah. Six people were made homeless by this demolition
- Also destroyed were homes in Qalandia Refugee Camp, Raft village and Ras Karkar village, all near Ramallah.
11 February: Two homes were destroyed by the Israeli military on 11 February in the al Dahariyya area in Hebron. The homes were owned by Ahmad Mansiq and Anwar Abu Shurq and located in Area C of the West Bank.
16 February: Israeli army destroyed 50 tents and evicted 137 Jahalin Bedouin from their traditional encampment to make way for the expansion of the Jewish settlement of Ma'aleh Admumim;
18 February: the home of Anwar al Nibilsi in al Tur village in Jerusalem. Twelve people were made homeless by this demolition.
19 February: Five homes destroyed in Bethlehem district, 3 in Hossan village and 2 in Zatara village;
25 February: the home of Kamal Hamed al Sidaiyi in al Tur village in Jerusalem. This four room 130 meter home housed 12 people;
26 February: Home of Jamil Ahmed al Qawasmi. Six people were made homeless, and the house was destroyed with his belongings inside;
3 March: The home of Yussef Mohammed and Zuhur al Attrash, from Qalqis south of Hebron, was destroyed with no warning. This home lies on the border of Hebron Municipality, just inside Area C. The home was completed in 1992, and housed 12 people. The family has lived on this land since Turkish times. Mrs. Al Attrash was wounded during the demolition by Israeli soldiers, and was treated in hospital;
4 March: Five homes destroyed:
- The home of Mohammed Issat al Jabari in a-Ram was destroyed. His home, in which 8 people lived, was built in 1995, without a permit. Since the summer of 1997, Mr. Al Jabari has been living in the Soumoud tent camp in Jerusalem, protesting the Israeli authority's refusal to pay his retirement pension following 25 years of employment with the Jerusalem Municipality;
- Four homes in Yatta, south of Hebron, owned by Nesar Nesar al Najadi, Oudeh Nesar al Najadi, Khalil Suleiman al Najadi, and Salem Suleiman Najadi. Some 32 people total lived in these four homes;
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