Updated summary on punitive home demolitions: 16.2.2016

• 9.1.2016 – military demolished the Halabi family home in Surda, Ramallah District; attack on 3.10.2015, in which Aharon Bennett and Nehemia Lavi were killed; demolition order issued 17.10.2015; petition HCJ 8567/15 on behalf of family and HaMoked filed on 13.12.2015 and petition HCJ 8782/15 on behalf of property owner and HaMoked filed on 20.12.2015; judgment issued 28.12.2015

• 4.1.2016 – military irreversibly sealed the Abu Jamal family home in Jabal al-Mukabber, East Jerusalem; attack on 13.10.2015, in which Yeshayahu Krishevsky was killed; demolition order issued 3.11.2015; petition HCJ 8150/15 on behalf of family and HaMoked filed 30.11.2015; judgement issued 22.12.2015

• 4.1.2016 – military demolished the ‘Alyan family home in Jabal al-Mukabber, East Jerusalem; attack on 13.10.2015, in which Alon Andrei Govberg, Chaim Haviv and Richard Lakin were killed; demolition order issued 11.11.2015; petition HCJ 8154/15 on behalf of family and HaMoked and petition HCJ 8156/15 on behalf of neighbors and HaMoked filed on 30.11.2015; judgment issued 22.12.2015; additional apartment in the same building and the building’s drain and sewage pipes sustained damage

• 3.12.2015 – military demolished the ‘Aleiwa family home in Nablus; attack on 1.10.2015, in which Eitam and Naama Henkin were killed; demolition order issued 20.10.2015; petition HCJ 7220/15 on behalf of family and HaMoked filed 27.10.2015; judgment issued 1.12.2015; five additional apartments in the same building sustained severe damage and rendered inhabitable. Lesser damage caused to nine adjacent homes and a mosque (data on collateral damage courtesy of OCHA)

• 2.12.2015 – military demolished the ‘Akari family home in Shu’fat Refugee Camp, East Jerusalem; attack on 5.11.2014, in which Jidan Assad and Shalom Baadani were killed; demolition order issued 20.11.2014; petition HCJ 8025/14 on behalf of family and HaMoked filed 26.11.2014; judgment issued 31.12.2014; three additional apartments in the same building sustained damage in various degrees (data on collateral damage courtesy of OCHA); in a hearing in petition HCJ 6745/15, the state claimed that two previous attempts to carry out this demolition order had failed because of riots at the refugee camp – during the second attempt a resident of the camp was killed and three others were injured

• 16.11.2015 – military demolished the Abu Shahin family home in Qalandia Refugee Camp, Ramallah District; attack on 19.6.2015, in which Danny Gonen was killed; demolition order issued 15.10.2015; petition HCJ 7081/15 on behalf of apartment owner Mrs. Hassan ‘Amer and HaMoked filed on 22.10.2015; judgment issued 12.11.2015; two additional apartments sustained severe damage and rendered inhabitable: one in the same building, the other in an adjacent building. Lesser damage caused to five additional apartments in nearby buildings (data on collateral damage courtesy of B’Tselem)

• 14.11.2015 – military demolished the Hamed family home in Silwad, Ramallah District; attack on 29.6.2015, in which Malachi Rosenfeld was killed; demolition order issued 15.10.2015; petition HCJ 7084/15 on behalf of family and HaMoked filed 22.10.2015; judgment issued 12.11.2015; eight adjacent buildings sustained damage (data on collateral damage courtesy of B’Tselem)

• 14.11.2015 – military demolished the Kusa family home in Nablus; attack on 1.10.2015, in which Eitam and Naama Henkin were killed; demolition order issued 15.10.2015; petition HCJ 7087/15 on behalf of family and HaMoked and petition HCJ 7092/15 on behalf of neighbors and HaMoked filed on 22.10.2015; judgment issued 12.11.2015; two additional apartments in the same building sustained severe damage and rendered inhabitable (data on collateral damage courtesy of B’Tselem)

• 14.11.2015 – military demolished the Haj Hamed family home in Nablus; attack on 1.10.2015, in which Eitam and Naama Henkin were killed; demolition order issued 15.10.2015; petition HCJ 7085/15 on behalf of family and HaMoked and petition HCJ 7076/15 on behalf of neighbors and HaMoked filed 22.10.2015; judgment issued 12.11.2015; two additional apartments in the same building sustained severe damage and rendered inhabitable (data on collateral damage courtesy of B’Tselem)

• 14.11.2015 – military demolished the Rizziq family home in Nablus; attack on 1.10.2015, in which Eitam and Naama Henkin were killed; demolition order issued 15.10.2015; petition HCJ 7079/15 on behalf of family and HaMoked filed 22.10.2015, and petition HCJ 7082/15 on behalf of neighbors and HaMoked filed 5.11.2015; judgment issued 12.11.2015; two additional apartments in the same building sustained severe damage and rendered inhabitable (data on collateral damage courtesy of B’Tselem)

• 20.10.2015 – military demolished the Hashlamun family home in Hebron; attack on 10.11.2014, in which Dalia Lemkus was killed; demolition order issued 19.8.2015; petition HCJ 5844/15 on behalf of family and HaMoked and petition HCJ 5839/15 on behalf of neighbors and HaMoked filed 15.10.2015; judgment issued 15.10.2015; yard of neighboring apartment sustained damage

• 6.10.2015 – military demolished the Ghassan Abu Jamal family home in Jabal al-Mukabber, East Jerusalem; attack on 18.11.2014, in which Avraham Goldberg, Aryeh Kupinsky, Kalman Levine, Haim Rothman, Zidan Saif and Moshe Twersky were killed; demolition order issued 20.11.2014; petition HCJ 8066/14 on behalf of family and HaMoked filed 27.11.2014; judgment issued 31.12.2014; seven additional apartments sustained damage in various degrees

• 6.10.2015 – military irreversibly sealed the room of Mu'taz Hijazi in his family home in Abu Tur, East Jerusalem; attack on 29.10.2014: the shooting of Yehuda Glick; demolition order issued 19.11.2014; petition HCJ 8024/14 on behalf of family and HaMoked filed 26.11.2014; judgement issued 15.6.2015

• 6.10.2015 – military demolished the Ja'abis family home in Jabal al-Mukabber, East Jerusalem; attack on 4.8.2014, in which Avraham Walles was killed; demolition order issued 13.11.2014; petition HCJ 7823/14 on behalf of family by private attorney filed 18.11.2014; judgment issued 31.12.2014; four additional apartments sustained damage (data on collateral damage courtesy of OCHA)

• 1.7.2015 – military irreversibly sealed the Udai Abu Jamal family home in Jabal al-Mukabber, East Jerusalem; attack on 18.11.2014, in which Avraham Goldberg, Aryeh Kupinsky, Kalman Levine, Haim Rothman, Zidan Saif and Moshe Twersky were killed; demolition order issued 20.11.2014; petition HCJ 8070/14 on behalf of family and HaMoked filed 2.12.2014; judgment issued 31.12.2014

• 19.11.2014 – military demolished the Shaludi family home in Silwan, East Jerusalem; attack on 22.10.2014, in which infant Chaya Zissel Braun and Karen Yemima Mosquera were killed; demolition order issued 14.11.2014; having no faith in the Israeli justice system, family opted not to challenge the demolition order

• 18.8.2014 – military demolished the Husam Qawasmeh family home in Hebron; attack on 13.6.2014: the abduction and killing of three youths, Naftali Frenkel, Gilad Sha'er and Eyal Yifrah; demolition order issued 16.7.2014; petition HCJ 5300/14 on behalf of family and HaMoked filed 31.7.2014; judgment issued 11.8.2014

• 18.8.2014 – military irreversibly sealed the Marwan Qawasmeh family home in Hebron; attack on 13.6.2014: the abduction and killing of three youths, Naftali Frenkel, Gilad Sha'er and Eyal Yifrah; demolition order issued 16.7.2014; petition HCJ 5290/14 on behalf of family and HaMoked filed 31.7.2014; judgment issued 11.8.2014

• 18.8.2014 – military demolished the Abu Ayesha family home in Hebron; attack on 13.6.2014: the abduction and killing of three Israeli youths, Naftali Frenkel, Gilad Sha'er and Eyal Yifrah; demolition order issued 16.7.2014; petition HCJ 5295/14 on behalf of family and HaMoked filed 31.7.2014; judgment issued 11.8.2014; additional apartment sustained damage (data on collateral damage courtesy of OCHA)

• 2.7.2014 – military demolished the Awwad family home in Idhna, Hebron District; attack on 14.4.2014, in which Baruch Mizrahi was killed; demolition order issued 23.6.2014; petition HCJ 4597/14 on behalf of family and HaMoked filed on 29.6.2014; judgment issued 1.7.2014; two additional apartments and ground-floor storage rooms in the same building sustained damage in various degrees

• *  On 29.10.2015, the HCJ held a hearing on HaMoked’s petitions against the intended punitive demolition of six homes. In the hearing, in view of the state’s practice of delaying the execution of demolition orders which the court had already approved, the justices instructed the state to supply the details of all issued demolition orders which the court had approved since 2013, including the dates of the judgment and actual demolition in each case. This court demand has led HaMoked to monitor the demolition dates, presented herein.

• 10.2.2016 – petition filed on behalf of the Mar'i family; attack on 3.10.2015, in which Aharon Banita-Bennett and Nehemia Lavi were killed; demolition order for the family home in Salfit, Tulkarm District, issued 20.1.2016.

• 7.2.2016 – petition filed on behalf of the Sqafi family; attack on 4.11.2015, in which Benjamin Yakubovich was killed; demolition order for the family home in Hebron issued 3.1.2016.

Demolition orders approved by HCJ on 14.2.2016, demolition pending

• 4.2.2016 – petition 968/16 filed on behalf of the Khalil family; attack on 19.11.2015, in which Reuven Aviram and Aharon Yesayev were killed; demolition order for the family home in Dura, Hebron District, issued 19.1.2016

• 4.2.2016 – petition 967/16 filed on behalf of the Harub family; attack on 19.11.2015, in which Shadi Arafa, Yaakov Don and Ezra Schwartz were killed; demolition order for the family home in Deir Samit, Hebron District, issued 30.12.2015
  

Pending objections to demolition orders issued by the military

• 10.2.2016 – objection filed on behalf of Hamad family; attack on 23.12.2015, in which were killed Reuven Birmajer and Ofer Ben Ari, who was accidentally shot by border-police officers; demolition order for the family home in Qalandia Refugee Camp issued 4.2.2016

• 10.2.2016 – objection filed on behalf of ‘Assaf family; objection on behalf of neighbors filed 9.2.2016; attack on 23.12.2015, in which were killed Reuven Birmajer and Ofer Ben Ari, who was accidentally shot by border-police officers; demolition order for the family home in Qalandia Refugee Camp issued 4.2.2016

• 10.2.2016 objection filed on behalf of Masudi family; objection on behalf of neighbors filed 9.2.2016; attack on 7.12.2015 in which Gennady Kaufman was killed, demolition order for the family home in Hebron issued 4.2.2016

• 10.2.2016 – objection filed on behalf of ‘Aliwi family; attack on 1.10.2015, in which Eitam and Naama Henkin were killed; demolition order for the family home in Nablus issued 4.2.2016

• 10.2.2016 – objection filed on behalf of Tawil family; attack on 13.9.2015, in which Alexander Levlovich was killed; demolition order for the family home in the neighborhood of Sur Bahir in Jerusalem issued 4.2.2016

• 10.2.2016 objection filed on behalf of Dwayat family; attack on 13.9.2015, in which Alexander Levlovich was killed; demolition order for the family home in the neighborhood of Sur Bahir in Jerusalem issued 4.2.2016

• 9.2.2016 – objection filed on behalf of D’es; attack on 17.1.2016, in which Dafna Meir was killed; demolition order for the family home in Beit ‘Amra, Hebron district, issued 4.2.2016

• 9.2.2016 – objection filed on behalf of ‘Amar family; attack on 1.10.2015, in which Eitam and Naama Henkin were killed; demolition order for the family home in Nablus issued 4.2.2016

• 9.2.2016 – objection filed on behalf of Sayah family; attack on 1.10.2015, in which Eitam and Naama Henkin were killed; demolition order for the family home in Nablus issued 4.2.2016

• 15.11.2015 – objections filed on behalf of the Abu Ghanem family and the property owner; attack on 13.10.2015, in which Alon Andrei Govberg, Chaim Haviv and Richard Lakin were killed; demolition order for the family home in Jabal al-Mukabber, East Jerusalem, issued 11.11.2015.

Objections denied on 11.2.2015

• 10.2.2016 – objection filed on behalf of Atrash family; attack on 13.9.2015, in which Alexander Levlovich was killed; demolition order for the family home in the neighborhood of Sur Bahir in Jerusalem issued 4.2.2016

• 10.2.2016 – objection filed on behalf of Abu Kaf family; attack on 13.9.2015, in which Alexander Levlovich was killed; demolition order for the family home in the neighborhood of Sur Bahir in Jerusalem issued 4.2.2016

Demolition orders cancelled by the HCJ

• 1.12.2015 – HCJ cancelled demolition order issued for the Abu Hashiyeh family home in Askar Refugee Camp, Nablus; in the petition, HCJ 6745/15, filed on behalf of the family and HaMoked, court ruled demolition order must be cancelled due to excessive delay in its issuance; attack on 10.11.2014, in which Almog Shiloni was killed; demolition order issued 3.10.2015

• 12.11.2015 – HCJ cancelled demolition order issued for the Ishak An’am family home in Silwad, Ramallah District; in the petition, HCJ 7040/15, filed on behalf of the property owner by a private attorney, the court ruled that the apartment would not be demolished provided the owner evicted the family; attack on 29.6.2015, in which Malachi Rosenfeld was killed; petition HCJ 7077/15 on behalf of family and HaMoked filed 22.10.2015 and petition HCJ 7180/15 on behalf of neighbors and HaMoked filed 26.10.2015 – both were rejected.

88 homes surveyed by military but not yet ordered for punitive demolition

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