06.25.2025 · 6 min reading time
June 25, 2025 · 6 min reading
Data set for 06.29.2024 to 06.25.2025
| Category | Total | 5-day avg | 30-day avg | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Incidents | 600 | | ||
| Structures | 2002 | | ||
| Displaced People | 4235 | | ||
| Men Displaced | 1240 | | ||
| Women Displaced | 1205 | | ||
| Children Displaced | 1796 | |
This data set runs from 06.29.2024 to 06.25.2025, with the 90 day demarcation being 03.27.2025 and the 10 day mark being set at 06.15.2025. This data is for the last 365 days, not Year-to-Date. As the data points out, across Jerusalem and the West Bank, displacement has been trending upwards. This, of course, is by design.
This data only reflects administrative home demolitions in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. This doesn't include the mass demolitions of homes in the Gaza Strip, or in places like the Naqab or the Galilee.
By Cody O'Rourke
cody@goodshepherdcollective.org
Since January 1, 2025, the Israeli state has carried out 280 military operations to destroy homes and live-giving infrastructure across the West Bank and East Jerusalem—an average of 1.6 incidents every day. Although the year is only 48% complete, this pace projects to 584 military operations by the end of the year, more than last year’s record-breaking 554 operations. The number of structural demolitions is even more telling: 891 homes, animal shelters, water systems, and other structures have already been damaged or razed this year. If current trends hold, the 1,858 destroyed structures will be more than any year since systematic monitoring began in 2009.
The human impact remains stark. The first half of 2025 has seen 1,191 Palestinians forcibly displaced, almost half of them children (49%), and split evenly between men and women. Each military operation now displaces 4.3 people on average, down from 7.8 last year, suggesting that while Israeli forces are striking more frequently, they are often targeting smaller residential clusters and livelihood infrastructure rather than multi-family blocks, as we’ve seen in the mass destruction across Jenin and Tulkarem. Yet the burden on children is rising: in the last 30 days, children made up 55% of the 125 people forced from their homes.
A short-term lull is visible: during the past month, incident frequency dipped to 1.03 per day, with 2.53 structures hit daily, slightly below the 90-day rate (1.56 and 5.24, respectively). This plateau follows a sharp escalation between March and May that drove the 90-day totals to 617 displaced persons and 472 structures, more than the entire annual tally in 2018.
This dip is without a doubt a result of the Israeli state diverting military resources to Iranian retaliatory strikes, rather than any sort of policy change.
Geographically, the pattern mirrors longer-term tactics: punitive demolitions and permit denials converge with Area C bulldozers-sweeps that have leveled Bedouin and farming communities, fragmenting Palestinian territorial continuity and cementing settlement growth corridors. With 223 demolition days projected for 2025—virtually two out of every three days—the policy of “facts on the ground” is on track to outpace even the intense post-October 7 period of 2024, entrenching displacement as a daily fixture of Palestinian life.
The physical demolition of Palestinian property is just one mechanism the zionist movement utilizes to erase the indigenous population in favor of colonialism. Cold, hard, discriminatory process designed as disenfranchisement is another. Israel’s Supreme Court is accelerating evictions in Batan al-Hawa, Silwan, in East Jerusalem. On June 22, 2025, Justice Alex Stein rejected the Um Nasser Rajabi appeal, requiring 18 relatives to leave their home of five decades. Six days earlier, Justice Noam Sohlberg dismissed the Shweiki and Odeh appeals without awaiting a government brief, displacing 19 more residents. A third file—Abd al-Fattah Rajabi (26 people)—has two weeks to respond but faces the same risk. Altogether, six houses could be lost within weeks.
These cases advance a settler drive, spearheaded by organisations linked to Ateret Cohanim, to replace a Palestinian community of 700 people with a Jewish enclave. Sixteen families have already been expelled; three homes were seized during the past year alone.
About eighty more families remain at risk. Five District Court appeals cover thirty-seven households (117 people), and at least five additional eviction suits are moving through the Magistrate’s Court against Rajabi, Odeh, Abu Ramouz, Duweik and Sarhan families.
Every claim relies on the 1970 Legal and Administrative Matters Law, which revives pre-1948 laws to entrench “settler rights” in East Jerusalem. Palestinians dispossessed inside Israel, however, are barred from restitution by the 1950 Absentees’ Property Law. This two-tiered regime enables one ethno-national group to “reclaim” property while denying the same remedy to another, facilitating settler takeovers by legal design.
Though the International Court of Justice and even Israeli scholars identify the policy as discriminatory and illegal under international standards, local settler courts treat each case as a routine lawsuit. Police enforcement then transforms those rulings into ongoing forced expulsions in service of colonialization and ethnic cleansing—the defining features of the zionist movement.
June 24 , 2025
Location: Ajja (Area C, Jenin district)
Description: Israeli Civil Administration inspectors, accompanied by Israeli forces, razed a 110m² concrete commercial shell abutting the Jenin–Nablus highway. The shop block had never been opened and stood empty; stop-work notices from 2023 were frozen in court but later lapsed when the owner’s follow-up stalled. No alternative permits exist in Area C, so the livelihood asset was destroyed without compensation.
June 24 , 2025
Location: Az-Zawiya (Area C, Jenin district)
Description: On the same highway, troops demolished a family’s roadside farm hub: a 200m² concrete stall, a 140m² corrugated-metal storehouse for tools and produce, and a 12m² metal container. The structures had faced stop-work orders in 2020 and 2022; legal appeals filed through JLAC yielded no ruling before bulldozers arrived—a reminder that the Israeli kangaroo court only provides a veil of legitimacy to the ignorant onlooker. The loss severs the family’s small-scale produce trade, as intended.
June 23 , 2025
Location: Jabal al-Mukabbir, East Jerusalem
Description: Under threat of heavy municipal fines, a widowed mother and her child dismantled their 60m² tin-sheet home—the second time in six months they have been forced to self-demolish on the site. The Jerusalem Municipality issued the order on 11 May, citing a lack of permits that Palestinians rarely obtain. The family is now homeless again.
June 19 , 2025
Location: Jabal al-Mukabbir, East Jerusalem
Description: Municipal crews, escorted by police, flattened a 700m² fenced compound used to store construction materials. The yard, set on a reinforced concrete pad, had been built eight months earlier and received a demolition order on June 2. All metal panels, the concrete base, and stored equipment were destroyed, stripping a five-member household—including three children—of its sole income source.
June 18 , 2025
Location: Einabus (Area B, Nablus district)
Description: In a punitive action, Israeli forces detonated and bulldozed a two-storey, 120m² family home. Eight people—including five children—were immediately forcibly displaced. This was a punitive demolition against the entire family after one member carried out shooting near Ariel settlement in November 2024. A surrounding 700m² concrete-and-metal wall, paved yard, plants, and stored building supplies were also leveled. The family’s legal appeals and an April confiscation challenge were unresolved when the demolition occurred.
