(((Demolition and Displacement)))

Palestinians further have been relegated to 165 islands, disconnected from one another through arbitrary roadblocks which restrict their freedom of movement. They aren't allowed to build homes. They require permits that are virtually impossible to obtain, so they can't. And when Palestinians do build them, Israeli forces bulldoze them.

The Israeli government targets specific houses and neighborhoods occupied by Palestinians and seizes the land, buildings through an arcane legal process in which the Palestinians have no access or legal representation. Then the Palestinians are forcibly evicted from their property after which their homes are handed over to Israeli settlers or simply demolished. This means an IDF unit or settler militia can show up at home, claiming god given ownership, and the property will become legally theres as it's origional owners are kicked out on the street.

There have even been events at synagogues in the United States at which real estate firms offer American Jews the chance to purchase stolen Palestinian land and homes at a discount.

Hill top Youth - The Hilltop Youth is an extremist settler and established in 1998 and is largely made up of occupiers between 16 and 26 years old who abandoned their schools and homes to inhabit illegal outposts overlooking Palestinian communities. In 2026, the Israeli government has approved plans to distribute 5.5 million shekels ($1.89 million) in state funds as daily stipends to the gang. Approximately $550 per month was allocated to each of the more than 650 members in outposts across the occupied West Bank, to cover their food, clothing, and general living costs. (Settler Attacks)

Arson - Settlers and/or the IDF set fire to Palestinians villages, and then the Israeli government moves to make the area off limits before tearing everthing down and rebuilding a Jewish settlement.

As of 2026, Israel has 147 Jewish-only settlements and 224 "outposts" built on confiscated Palestinian land. Over 123,060 Palestinian homes have been demolished by the Israeli government since 1967. According to the UN, 46,000 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced in the last three years since 2026.

IDF

Mowing the grass - Mowing the grass is a military doctrine, coined by Efraim Inbar and Eitan Shamir, to describe periodic Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, targetting civilians and civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip. Eclairs in a bakery in Modi'in with icing reading: 'Let the IDF mow them down!':

Caterpillar D9 - The IDF Caterpillar D9 is a buldozer specifucally designed for the army to demolish Palestinian homes.

During raids, the IDF targers water wells to prevent Palestinians from getting water, as they did at the village where Rachel Corrie was killed.

Timeline

First and second Yishuv

The Nakba (1948– ) - There's a foundational Israeli myth that Arab broadcasts instructed Palestinians to leave their homes before the Arab Army's invasion. In reality, CIA and even Israeli records prove otherwise as has been documented by historians including Benny Morris that the Haganah intelligence service was reporting: ''every Arab leaving the country is regarded as a traitor and would be put on trial in Syria everyone wishing to leave the country had to obtain permission from the Arab National Committee in Haifa.''

During the 1948 Palestine War, 750,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed by Irgun and Hagenah militia groups under the orders of Jewish Agency leader and future prime minister David Ben-Gurion, orchestrated in what was called Plan Dalet. Subsequently, $780B was stolen in land, property, and wealth left behind. According to Israeli historian Benny Morris, Zionist forces perpetrated 24 massacres of Palestinians throughout. IDF veterans gleefully recolect killing of Paestinian civilians during this time. Between 1949 and 1956, Zionist forces killed as many as 5,000 Arabs. 1000 were killed in the year after the war, when Palestinian refugees tried to return home.

Lydde Death March - The forced expulsion of approximately 50.000 to 70.000 Palestinian residents from the cities of Lydda (now Lod) and Ramla over several days. The Israeli military gave the residents of Lydde an ultimatum to leave within half an hour. Most able-bodied men were detained and sent to prison camps, not including 175 to 250 who were killin inside the cities great mosque, leaving mostly women, children, and the elderly being forced to march on foot for 15 to 25 kilometers under the summer heat to reach the Arab Legion lines near Ramallah. Between hundreds to over a thousand died along the rugged path due to extreme thirst, dehydration, and sheer physical exhaustion. Testimonies often mention low-flying Israeli military planes hovering over the marching lines, forcing civilians to keep moving.

Ikrit - In 1948, the Israeli military ordered the northern village of Iqrit, with a population of 600, to leave temporarily. They didn't actually cross the border, but relocated just several kilometers away. But they were never allowed to return. The residents sued for the right to return, and actually won. Israel's Supreme Court ruled in their favor. However, the Israeli Ministry of Defense refused to implement the decision, fearing it would create a precedent. In 1951, the Ministry of Defense blew up all the remaining houses in the village. To this day, the Iqrit community numbers 1,500, who live just 20 kilometers away in Ramah. And to this day, they continue to fight for their right to return to their homes.

(1950) Absentee's Property Law - In 1950, the State of Israel passed the Absentee's Property Law, which the state used to claim all the land of all the Palestinians who had fled their homes as a result of the war, regardless of whether they fled to another country or were internally displaced. And to this day, they are still prohibited from accessing and using land and property that belonged to them or their families in 1948.

From 1948 to 1966, Palestinians living in Israel were placed under military rule. The state used extraordinary emergency powers to confiscate property and close entire villages as military zones, confining Palestinians to dozens of enclaves. They were tried in military courts and required permits to leave their cordoned off areas. They banned protests and political parties. According to Haaretz, Israel lifted its military rule over the state's Arab community in 1966 only after ascertaining that its members could not return to the villages they had fled or been expelled from. By the time military rule was lifted, Israel had completed its initiative of destroying Palestinian homes and making them uninhabitable.

Six Day War - Israel takes the land they stole back from Egypt, Jordan and Syria (Gaza, Sinai, the west bank/East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights) According to Israel's own estimates, the Six Day War of June 1967 produced as many as 250,000 refugees.

🇵🇸(1993) Oslo Accords

(2003) Izbet al-Tabib village - In 2003, 23-year-old American activist was purposefully crushed to death by an IDF bulldozer while trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian doctor's home, during the demolitoin of property and a well the village of Izbet al-Tabib.

(2008) Cast Lead - After humiliation in Lebanon, Israel took out its frustration on Gaza's civilian populatoin. Between 2,100 and 3,540 residential buildings were destroyed. Between 2,100 and 3,540 residential buildings are destroyed.

''We will wield disproportionate power against every village from which shots are fired at Israel, and cause immense damage and destruction. What happened in the Dehiya quarter of Beirut in 2006 will happen in every village from which Israel is fired on. This isn't a suggestion, this is a plan that has already been authorized.'' - Gadi Eizenkot, Head of IDF Northern Command.

''The IDF should decide on a neighborhood in gaza and level it.'' - Meir Sheetrit, Interior Minister

According to the UN fact-finding mission following the 2008 invasion the purpose was simply ''to punish humiliate and terrorize a civilian population.'' 

''It should be possible to destroy gaza so they will understand not to mess with us. It is a great opportunity to demolish thousands of houses thousands of houses tunnels and industries will be demolished.'' - Eli Yishai, Deputy Prime Minister

IDF bulldozer operator: ''Our objective was to demolish houses. We were secured by heavy armored personnel carriers and tanks. In this case, the tanks were assigned to us rather than the other way around. The area was completely empty. Everything was empty... we demolished a lot. There were people who had been in Gaza for 2 days, constantly demolishing one house after the other. And we're talking about a whole battalion.''

'''If they didn't like the looks of some house, if it disturbed or threatened them, then it would be taken down.'' 

Interviewer: ''But that was for operational needs?'' 

''Operational needs? I don't know, maybe half of them. Sometimes the company commander would give the D9 something to demolish just to make them happy.''

(2009) Jacob Fauci -  Backed by Israeli state infrastructure and settler organisations, Jacob Fauci, a settler origionally from Long Island, took over an extension of the el-Kurd family home in 2009.

Muna el-Kurd: ''You are steeling my house.''

Fauci: ''And if I don't steal it, someone else is gonna steel it.''

(2010) Demolition of Al Araqib Village - Around 1,300 armed Israeli police officers and Israel Land Administration (ILA) personnel stormed the village.

(2014) Protective Edge - 18,000 Gazan homes destroyed; Israel destoryed 22 schools and damaged 118 others, claming they held Hamas weapons, which human rights groups and the UN debunked; They also targeted UN run schools being used to shelter civilians: UN elementary school in Beit Hanoun, killing 13, a UN boys' school in Rafah, killing 12, a UN girls elementary school in Jabalya, killing 20. The precise location of the Jabalia girls school was communicated to the Israeli army 17 times, according to UNRWA; Israel destoryed or damaged 17 hospitals, 56 primary care facilites and 45 ambulences. Gaza's only rehab centre, al-Wafaa hospital was completely destroyed.

(2011) Communities Acceptance Law - Unlike most industrialized countries, in Israel, the state controls 93% of the land, either directly or indirectly through quasi-national bodies such as the Jewish National Fund. In 2011, the Knesset passed the Communities Acceptance Law, which established admissions committees in Jewish communities to screen applicants based on their social suitability or their unsuitability to the community's social and cultural fabric. The 2011 law stipulated that these admissions councils were limited to towns with 400 residents, though this rule was repeatedly broken. Regardless, in 2023, the law was expanded to towns with 1,000 residents. Today, admissions committees operate in 53 regional councils which control 81% of state land in Israel. Arabs are, in practice, barred from leasing land in 80% of the land in the state of Israel. 

(2017) Umm al-Hiran - For more than 15 years, the residents of Umm al-Hiran have been waging a legal battle to save their village, which is slated for demolition. In 2017, Israeli forces attempted to evacuate Umm el-Hiran by force and began demolishing homes. Yaqub Abu al-Qiyan, a 47-year-old Arab Israeli citizen, was shot and killed. the Israeli police allowed no medical assistance for three hours. Afterward, officers suppressed evidence of his innocence and Benjamin Netanyahu accused him of being a terrorist, which he had to retract later on after a Shin Bet investigation cleared him of wrongdoing. After the incident, the plan to remove the villagers was paused, but resumed in 2022. The new village being built, which will take its place, will simply be called Hiran. Iran's Cooperative Association bylaws state, "An individual may be approved by the admissions if they meet the following qualifications: ''a Jewish Israeli citizen or permanent resident of Israel who observes the Torah and commandments according to Orthodox Jewish values." 

(2020) Silwan demolitions - In 2020, four Palestinian families were forced to destroy their own homes by decree of the Israeli municipality of Jerusalem.

(2023) Gaza War - 92% of Infrastructure damaged or destroyed. Sewage facilities were hit, leaving solid waste accumulating in the streets.

Netenyahiu to The Jerusalem Post: "We are destroying more and more homes. They have nowhere to return to. The only inevitable outcome will be the desire of Gazins to immigrate outside of the Gaza Strip.''

''Gaza will eventually turn into a city of tents. There will be no buildings'' - Unamed defence official to Channel 13.

The Jabalia refugee camp, according to AP, was been razed to the ground. The camp had a population of 100,000 in just one half of one square mile. Its population density was higher than that of Manila, the highest of any city in the world.

(2023) West Bank anaxation - In February of 2023 the civilian Authority or the body that governs the West Bank was transferred to Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, in other words, effectively annexed. Smotrich was given expansive powers over land surveying registration, settlement construction, outpost demolition, infrastructure projects including water, electricity transportation and other matters. Smotrich announced the construction of 2,000 additional housing units on Palestinian land to “establish clear facts on the ground.” Smotrich explicitly stated that the strategic objective of these projects is to “prevent the creation” of a Palestinian state through the continual establishment of illegal outposts that act as launch pads for assaults on Palestinian communities.

Demolition of Jenin - The demolitions and destruction in Jenin primarily occurred during Operation Home and Garden, a massive 48-hour Israeli military incursion into the Jenin Refugee Camp and Jenin city on 3–5 July 2023. displacing around 3,500 people (500 families). Over 40 families remained permanently displaced immediately following the raid.

(2024) Destruction of Al-Aqsa University - Al-Aqsa University in Khan Yunis, Southern Gaza Strip, was completely destroyed by Israel. 

(2025) Burning of Taybeh - settlers burned down Taybeh, the last entirely Christian Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank, which has faced a wave of systematic attacks, arson, and encroaching blockades by Israeli settlers.

🇵🇸Yellow Line established

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By: GDF, Ryan Dawson...

Raped by: Otto Heckel