10.20.2025 · 6 min reading time
October 20, 2025 · 6 min reading
Data set for 09.20.2025 to 10.20.2025
| Category | Total | 5-day avg | 30-day avg | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Incidents | 19 | | ||
| Structures | 46 | | ||
| Displaced People | 52 | | ||
| Men Displaced | 19 | | ||
| Women Displaced | 15 | | ||
| Children Displaced | 18 | |
This data set runs from 09.20.2025 to 10.20.2025, covering a 30-day period. This data is for the 30 days prior to and including the publish date, 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 Staff
info@goodshepherdcollective.org
Demolition data reveals a systematic pattern of displacement, characteristic of settler colonial practices in the occupied Palestinian territories. Over the last 365 days, Israel has carried out well over 551 military operations and administrative demolitions, displacing 2,506 Palestinians and destroying 1,771 structures in the West Bank and East Jerusalem alone. On average, the Israeli state displaces 6.87 people and destroys 4.85 structures daily across the West Bank and East Jerusalem. These numbers mushroom when one includes the erasure of Gaza and the systematic consolidation of Palestinians inside of 1948 territories into ethnic enclaves.
The statistics demonstrate intensified activity in recent periods, with year-to-date figures showing 445 operations displacing 1,770 people (481 males, 460 females) and destroying 1,409 structures. The daily operational average of 1.52 operations translates to continuous dispossession.
Within a settler colonial framework, these demolitions function as tools of territorial expansion and demographic engineering — critical components of the zionist movement. The bureaucratic justification — a lack of Israeli-issued building permits — works as a form of "legalized dispossession," in which occupying powers create permit systems designed to be unattainable for indigenous populations.
The October 16th demolition in al Mughayyir near Ramallah exemplifies bureaucratic violence: despite the family appointing legal counsel and receiving only a stop-work order in 2023, Israeli forces demolished their two-story home without allowing the family to exhaust legal procedures. This 200m² per floor structure, built in 2010 and nearly completed, housed nine people including four children.
In Bab az Zahira a family was forced to self-demolish a home on October 6 — a particularly cruel procedure where Palestinians must destroy their own homes under threat of heavier fines. After displacing five people including one child, Israeli forces returned the next day to excavate without explanation, asserting territorial control beyond mere demolition. This family had previously experienced demolition in 2023, highlighting the cyclical nature of displacement.
The concentration of punitive demolitions — collective punishment for alleged security incidents — and the pattern of legal procedures being bypassed or accelerated under state pressure reveals how administrative violence supplements military force under Israeli rule.
West Bank Humanitarian Crisis: Olive Harvest Under Siege
As the 2025 olive harvest begins, more than 60 Palestinian communities face unprecedented threats from settler violence and access restrictions. OCHA has identified high-risk areas primarily in Nablus, Ramallah, Hebron, and Salfit governorates, where farmers attempting to access their agricultural lands confront recurrent settler raids, tree vandalism, crop theft, and violent intimidation, much of which is funded by the Israeli state itself and the broader NGO communities in the US, Canada and the UK.
The numbers are startling: Since October 7, 2023, OCHA has documented 3,112 settler attacks, displacing 3,095 Palestinians, including 1,544 children, primarily from Bedouin and herding communities. June and July 2025 recorded the highest monthly injury rates since documentation began in 2005. During the first nine months of 2025, OCHA documented over 1,200 settler attacks across 246 West Bank communities. During these incidents, settlers killed 13 Palestinians and injured 785 others. Ramallah governorate experienced the highest impact, accounting for 42 percent of injuries and nine of 13 fatalities, particularly in towns between Road 60 and the Allon Road.
The level of violence of is strategically designed to accelerate the process of indigenous erasure. Settler violence and access restrictions have displaced 3,095 Palestinians, including 1,544 children, mostly from Bedouin and herding communities. The Protection Cluster issued an urgent Call-to-Action on October 8, warning of rapidly deteriorating protection conditions as settler violence reaches unprecedented levels. Nearly one-third of affected communities face overlapping settler attacks and Israeli military access restrictions.
Most recently, between September 30 and October 6, OCHA documented 25 Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians, with at least 13 occurring during the olive harvest season. These attacks injured eight Palestinians — six of whom were physically assaulted by settlers and two shot by Israeli forces — and resulted in the vandalism of approximately 400 olive trees and saplings, as well as four vehicles.
In the Jerusalem governorate, settlers stole 58 sheep from the al-Muntar Bedouin community and a water tank from Mikhmas. On October 4, armed settlers raided Deir Jarir village in Ramallah, intimidating residents and damaging property. When Palestinians confronted them, Israeli forces intervened by firing live ammunition, shooting two Palestinians—one in the chest, another in the leg. Settlers physically assaulted elderly Palestinian women in separate incidents in Hebron and Nablus governorates.
Water infrastructure remains a primary target. On October 1, settlers damaged the Ein Samiya spring's surveillance system, cutting water supply to approximately 100,000 Palestinians across 20 villages for one day. In 2025 alone, nine settler attacks have targeted this location. Near newly established outposts in Nablus, settlers repeatedly emptied water tanks and destroyed pipelines in Bedouin communities, forcing families to rely on water trucks for days.
October 16, 2025
Location: Al Mughayyir (Area C, Ramallah)
Description: Israeli forces demolished a two-story residential building (200m² per floor) and water tank, affecting 9 people including 4 children from 2 households. The house, built in 2010 and nearly completed, received a stop-work order in 2023. The family hired a lawyer to obtain a building permit but the demolition proceeded without exhausting legal procedures in Israeli courts.
October 10, 2025
Location: Qatanna village (Area B, Jerusalem district)
Description: Israeli forces conducted an overnight punitive demolition, detonating a 150m² apartment on the second floor of a three-story building. The property belonged to a Palestinian killed after the September 8 attack at Ramot settlement. The apartment was sealed with metal sheets on September 12; the demolition was executed one month later without allowing the family to pursue legal remedies. Furthermore, the family was displaced under a land seizure order.
October 6, 2025
Location: Bab az Zahira/Al Musrara (East Jerusalem)
Description: Palestinian family forced to self-demolish 90m² house (2 bedrooms, 2 living rooms, kitchen, bathroom), displacing 5 people including 1 child. Built with cement blocks and metal sheets, it has been inhabited since 2023 after a previous demolition the same year. The family received a June 2025 demolition order with 21-day notice and hired a lawyer, but self-demolished under municipality pressure and threat of heavy fines. The day after demolition, Israeli forces excavated the site without notice or explanation.
October 6, 2025
Location: Hebron city, Farsh al Hawa (Area A)
Description: Israeli forces punitively demolished a residential apartment in a five-story building, displacing a family of 3 including 1 child. The property belonged to the family of Ahmad Haimoni, allegedly connected to the October 1, 2024 Jaffa attack. Forces removed 20 families from surrounding buildings during the midnight raid. This is the fourth punitive demolition in Hebron related to the same attack. Other apartments sustained damage from soldier raids.
September 30, 2025
Location: Beit Sira village (Area C, Ramallah)
Description: Israeli forces demolished 4 structures on 2 dunums, affecting 12 people including 8 children from 2 households. Destroyed: animal shelter, scrap shop, office/resting structure, converted bus chicken shelter, plus concrete walls, equipment, trees, animal troughs, water tanks. The family received a stop-work order in 2017 and hired a lawyer for building permit, but again the demolition was executed without exhausting legal procedures or receiving a final demolition order.
