WEST BANK DEMOLITIONS AND DISPLACEMENT:
AN OVERVIEW
December 2014
In December, OCHA documented 23 demolition incidents
resulting in the destruction of 38 residential and livelihoodrelated structures in the West Bank, including East
Jerusalem, on the grounds that they lacked Israeli-issued
building permits. A total of 18 persons, half of them
children, were displaced, and approximately 370 were
otherwise affected.
More than 60 per cent of the demolished structures (24)
were located in Area C and the rest in East Jerusalem.
Unlike previous months, only one of the affected
communities in Area C is located in the Jordan Valley
area, and it is the only Bedouin/herding community
registering demolitions this month.
Highlights

Thirty-eight (38) Palestinian structures
demolished in the West Bank, including
East Jerusalem.

Slight decrease in structures demolished in
2014 along with slight increase in displacement.

Five of the demolished structures were
donor-funded.

Demolition orders issued against three
donor-funded structures in Area C.
In East Jerusalem, around half of the structures
demolished were recorded in the neighborhood of Jabal Al
Mukabbir, this month with four residences (none of them inhabited), three livelihood-related structures
and a retaining wall demolished. The remaining were documented in At Tur, Al ‘Isawiya and Shu’fat
refugee camp.
In Area C, the most affected governorates were Hebron (11) and Jerusalem (9). Five of the overall
structures demolished this month in Area C were funded by international donors in Jabal al Baba in the
Jerusalem area and in Al ‘Auja and Al Jiftlik-ash-Shuneh in the Jordan Valley. These included two water
reservoirs (in the Jordan Valley), a residential structure and an animal shelter (both in Jabal al Baba).
Since the beginning of the year, the Israeli authorities demolished, dismantled or seized a total of 143
donor-funded structures/items.
Also in Area C, the Israeli authorities issued this month a demolition order against two donor-funded
structures (an animal shelter and a storage room) in Idhna village (Hebron), affecting 16 people; and
another order against a donated agricultural cistern in Al Khader village (Bethlehem).
This month’s demolitions brings to 601 the total number of Palestinian structures targeted in 2014,
almost a ten per cent decrease compared to previous year (663 in 2013), but up by ten percent in terms
of the number of people displaced (1,215 vs. 1,103). About 82 per cent of the affected structures (493)
were located in Area C, half of which were located in the Jordan Valley area, 16 percent in East
Jerusalem (98), and two per cent (ten structures) were located in areas A and B.
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WEST BANK DEMOLITIONS AND DISPLACE
EMENT
AN
NNEX I:: WEST
T BANK DEMOL
LITIONS
S - DEC
CEMBER
R 2014
Structurres
Demolish
hed
*
People Displacced
**
People
e Affected
All
Ch
hildren
All
en
Childre
Ea
ast Jerusalem
m
14
8
3
69
32
Area C
24
10
0
6
301
143
TOTAL
38
18
8
9
370
175
* Inc
cludes all people who had a struc
cture used as the
eir habitual place
e of residence demolished.
** Includes all people
e who had any off their property, other
o
than their rresidence, demolished. Displaced
d and affected arre mutually exclu
usive
cate
egories, i.e. people counted under the former are not included in th
he latter.
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WEST BANK DEMOLITIONS AND DISPLACEMENT
22 Dec
Jerusalem
Name of
community
Date
Governorate
ANNEX II: DEMOLITION OR REMOVAL OF DONOR-FUNDED
STRUCTURES
Jabal al
Baba
Type of structure
One residential
structure and two
animal shelters *
People
displaced
People affected
Type of action
All
Children
All
Children
9
6
31
14
Estimated
cost
Demolition
US$ 6,045
* The three structures demolished were originally meant to serve as animal shelters; however, one of them was
turned by the beneficiaries into a residential structure.
ANNEX III: SEIZURE OF ASSISTANCE FUNDED BY DONORS PRIOR
TO DELIVERY
Nothing to report
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WEST BANK DEMOLITIONS AND DISPLACEMENT
19 Dec
Hebron
20 Dec
Bethleh
em
Name of
community
Date
Governorate
ANNEX IV: STOP-WORK, DEMOLITION OR EVICTION ORDERS
AGAINST DONOR-FUNDED STRUCTURES
Type of
structure
Idhna
One animal
shelter and
one storage
room
Al Khadr
One
agriculture
cistern
People at risk of
displacement
Type of order
Demolition
Estimated cost
All
Children
16
12
US$ 4,468.85
8
4
NA
Stop-work order
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