Many women and men of Umm al-Khair were reportedly assaulted by Israeli soldiers and border police while they tried to peacefully stop the demolition of their property.

Early Wednesday morning, Israeli military forces broke into Umm al-Daraj with two bulldozers. A toilet, a shelter for the sheep, a cave used as home and a tinplated house which housed eight people were destroyed.

Two hours later, Israeli forces arrived at Umm al-Khair village and declared it a closed military area for internationals and Israeli civilians, according to WAFA‘s report. They pushed away the international volunteers who arrived to monitor any human rights violations, threatening them with arrest.