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Data set for 10.07.2025 to 11.06.2025
| Category | Total | 5-day avg | 30-day avg | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Incidents | 23 | | ||
| Structures | 44 | | ||
| Displaced People | 62 | | ||
| Men Displaced | 18 | | ||
| Women Displaced | 12 | | ||
| Children Displaced | 24 | |
This data set runs from 10.07.2025 to 11.06.2025, 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.
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As 2025 enters its final months, Israeli military and civil administration operations have demolished 1,443 Palestinian structures across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, forcibly displacing 1,828 people from their homes (these numbers don’t include the homes and economic infrastructure destroyed in Gaza during the genocide, or the mass expulsion campaigns in the Naqab — which are also on the rise). With 462 documented military operations and administrative orders from the beginning of the year through early November, averaging 1.5 operations every single day, this year's demolition campaign is on track to match the devastating intensity of 2024, when 554 operations over the year destroyed 1,773 structures and displaced over 4,200 Palestinians. The current trajectory, with 84.7% of the year elapsed, projects a final toll of 546 total incidents, 1,705 structures destroyed, and 2,159 people displaced by the year's end. This relentless pace represents not merely administrative enforcement, but the systematic implementation of a settler-colonial project designed to make Palestinian presence impossible in their ancestral lands.
The historical context reveals an alarming escalation of the zionist erasure campaign. Averaging the data from 2009 to 2023, the surge in 2024 represented a doubling of operations and a tripling of displacements. The 2025 data confirms this elevated intensity as the new baseline, maintaining nearly identical daily averages to 2024's most destructive year on record. This sustained assault on Palestinian housing and infrastructure exposes the lie of "security concerns" or "permit violations" as justification. Instead, these operations function as ethnic cleansing through bureaucratic violence, deploying the architecture of Israeli civil and military administration to systematically depopulate Palestinian communities and clear land for continued colonial expansion.
The human cost of this campaign emerges starkly in individual cases. On October 29, 2025, Israeli civil administration and military destroyed a newly completed water transmission pipeline in Zif, south of Hebron, cutting off water access for 153 families. This was designed to cut off 1,000 people, including 523 children, from the life-sustaining infrastructure, which, of course, is the point. (This wasn’t the first time it was destroyed.) The pipeline, completed in 2025 through international and local NGO funding, was built to provide a reliable water supply through modern infrastructure to a community long denied basic utilities by the Israeli state apparatus. Despite coordination with Israeli water authorities and attempts to obtain permits, Israeli forces bulldozed the pipeline and destroyed two manholes, rendering months of construction and significant international investment to rubble. This attack on critical water infrastructure exemplifies how demolitions target not just homes but the entire ecosystem of Palestinian life, making existence itself precarious.
Three days later, on November 3, Jerusalem municipality forces demolished an inhabited home and animal shelter in al-Walaja, while partially destroying an under-construction apartment and stone wall. The operation displaced a family of nine, including seven children, while affecting another family of five and destroying the livelihood infrastructure of an additional landowner whose five trees were uprooted. The families had received demolition orders and pursued legal challenges through Israeli courts. For Palestinians, being subjugated to the Israeli courts is a Kafkaesque process that they navigate knowing the system is designed to legitimize, not prevent, their dispossession. For example, al-Walaja sits partially within Jerusalem's manipulated municipal boundaries, a cartographic sleight-of-hand that allows Israel to claim legal jurisdiction over Palestinian land while denying Palestinians building permits, creating an impossible catch-22 that guarantees demolition and displacement.
These incidents illuminate the mechanics of settler-colonial elimination: the indigenous population must be removed, their infrastructure destroyed, their connection to land severed. Whether through denying water access to 1,000 people or rendering families homeless in the winter cold, each demolition is an act of refusal — a refusal to recognize Palestinian permanence, rights, or futures. As the bulldozers continue their work in the final months of 2025, the international community's silence becomes a form of complicity in this ongoing campaign of erasure.
This systematic destruction of Gaza's built environment, which has affected four out of every five structures across the entire Strip, represents the deliberate rendering of Palestinian territory uninhabitable, transforming an entire society's homeland into an endless landscape of rubble while forcing survivors into perpetual internal exile. (For an up-close visualization, see the Good Shepherd Collective interactive map here.)
According to the satellite imagery analysis conducted by UNOSAT on September 22-23, 2025, approximately 83% of all structures in Gaza City have been damaged or destroyed. Israel, backed by the US and the UK, has conducted bombing campaigns that have left a staggering 41,221 buildings reduced to rubble, rendered uninhabitable, or structurally compromised by Israel's ongoing military campaign. The devastation includes 17,734 destroyed structures, 4,345 severely damaged buildings, and 11,201 moderately damaged structures across the city's 45 square kilometers. Comparing the September analysis with satellite imagery from July 8, 2025, just two and a half months earlier, shows a 7% increase in total affected structures and a devastating 36% surge in completely destroyed buildings. This acceleration has resulted in an estimated 81,159 housing units being damaged or destroyed, displacing approximately 467,523 people. Imperialism, through the vehicle of zionism, has rendered nearly half a million human beings homeless in a single city. The neighborhoods of az-Zaitoun and at-Turukman aI-jdeedeh bore the brunt of this recent escalation, with 2,568 and 1,440 newly affected structures.
The scale of devastation in Gaza City exposes the fundamental logic of settler-colonial violence: the elimination of indigenous presence through the wholesale destruction of the built environment. When 83% of a city's structures are damaged, this cannot be explained through the military lexicon of "precision strikes" or "legitimate targets." This is urbicide, the murder of a city itself. The destroyed schools, hospitals, homes, shops, mosques, and apartment buildings represent not just physical infrastructure but the fabric of Palestinian social, cultural, and economic life in Gaza. This is the architecture of genocide: not merely killing people directly, but destroying the conditions for life itself to continue. The 467,523 displaced persons in Gaza City alone represent communities unable to survive in their homeland, their neighborhoods transformed by zionism from urban centers to wastelands as the international community watches this real-time ethnic cleansing through satellite imagery, documenting the crime while doing very little to stop it.
November 5, 2025
Location: Beit Hanina (East Jerusalem)
Description: A Palestinian family was forced to self-demolish their 80m² residential house and 30m² swimming pool. The demolition displaced six people, including four children. The house, built in 2016 with cement block and stone walls, featured two bedrooms, a kitchen, a living room, and a bathroom. The family received demolition orders and hired a lawyer to obtain a building permit. However, all efforts were rejected by Israeli courts, with approximately 60,000 NIS in fines still being paid in installments. Final demolition order was issued on November 2, 2025, followed by threats from Israeli forces and the Jerusalem Municipality, forcing the family to self-demolish under threat of additional heavy fines.
November 5, 2025
Location: Al 'Isawiya (East Jerusalem)
Description: A Palestinian family was forced to self-demolish their 120m² agricultural animal shelter, affecting three people, including one child. The structure, built with cement-block walls and metal-sheet roofing and divided into four units for sheep and horses, had been in use for approximately 30 years. The family received a demolition order four years ago, with ongoing threats fromthe Jerusalem Municipality. Final demolition order issued October 3, 2025, and posted on the structure, accompanied by threats to arrest the owner if they did not comply.
November 4, 2025
Location: Silwan - Al Bustan area (East Jerusalem)
Description: A Palestinian family was forced to self-demolish their 75m² residential house, displacing three people, including one child. The house, built in 2017 with cement block and concrete walls and ceiling, featured two bedrooms, a kitchen, a living room, and a bathroom. The family received demolition orders, hired a lawyer to obtain a building permit, but all efforts were rejected by Israeli courts, with approximately 45,000 NIS in fines still being paid in installments. Final demolition order was issued in June 2025, followed by ongoing threats from Israeli forces and the Jerusalem Municipality, forcing the family to self-demolish under threat of additional heavy fines and arrests.
November 4, 2025
Location: Budrus (Area C, Ramallah)
Description: Israeli Civil Administration, accompanied by Israeli forces, demolished 120m² agricultural resting room affecting 10 people, including eight children. The structure, built with metal sheets and a cement base, was located on three dunums of agricultural land enclosed by a metal fence supported by a stone wall. Both the structure and the surrounding fence were demolished. The family received a stop-work order in 2021 and hired a lawyer to pursue the case and apply for a building permit, but demolition was carried out before the family exhausted all legal proceedings.
November 3, 2025
Location: Al Walaja (East Jerusalem)
Description: Jerusalem Municipality, along with Israeli forces, demolished an inhabited residential house and animal shelter, and partially demolished an under-construction apartment and a stone wall. Structure located in an area declared inside the municipal boundaries of Jerusalem, allegedly for lacking a building permit. As a result, nine people, including seven children, were displaced, and another family of five, including two children.
