Israel Demolishes Palestinian Structures in Hizma and Jordan Valley
Israeli authorities carried out multiple demolition operations in the occupied West Bank on May 20 and 21, 2026. In Hizma, northeast of Jerusalem, demolition orders were issued for eight homes and commercial structures, including a carpentry workshop and grocery store. Simultaneously, residential and livestock structures were destroyed in the Ain al-Hilweh area of the northern Jordan Valley. Palestinian officials described the actions as an escalation of settlement expansion policies, displacing several families from their ancestral lands.