The Colonization & Wall Resistance Commission said it recorded 9,518 Israeli demolition and stop-work notices in the West Bank since 2015, documenting enforcement cases that restrict Palestinian construction.
Of that total, 9,174 notices were recorded from 2015 through 2025; another 344 were listed for January through September 2026. The Commission described the 2026 figure as provisional because records were still being checked and updated.
The tally draws on cases followed with legal partners and may not include every notice. It counts proceedings, not distinct buildings, since the same structure can be involved in more than one case.
For 2015-2025, Hebron had the most notices, at 2,697, followed by Bethlehem with 1,310, Ramallah and al-Bireh with 1,118, and Jerusalem with 929. Those four governorates accounted for about two-thirds of the 9,174 notices recorded during that period; the figures do not include the 2026 tally.
The annual count rose from 701 in 2015 to 1,333 in 2023, then fell to 939 in 2024 before increasing to 991 in 2025, the Commission said. It linked the notices to limits on Palestinian construction, effects on family stability and constraints on communities seeking to extend services and support livelihoods.
The Commission also points to Military Order 1797 as a historical precedent. A separate United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) September 2026 snapshot puts its annual series at roughly 15,000 Palestinian-owned structures demolished, seized or sealed from January 2009 through September 2026. OCHA's figure counts structures and property actions, while the Commission's tally counts notices.
