2/19/2022 IDF asserts its right to train in the homes on the outskirts of the villages and to demolish eight buildings outside the original master plan.
1/31/2022 IDF denies having trained in the village, regarding any construction or expansion beyond the pre established area as illegitimate
1/30/2022 House of Ishmael Tayyeb demolished
10/11/2021 Civil Authority issues “96-Hour” Demolition notices on two buildings within Al-Aqaba’s Master Plan, the first in over a decade.
2008 Israeli High Court issues first verdict, saying “under no circumstances will buildings be allowed to stand without a valid building permit.” They do, however, acknowledge the existence of the village, which requires them to stay demolitions until the master plan proposal is considered
2004Israel Civil Authority issues demolition orders against virtually the entire village.
2002 Israeli High Court rules that IDF must remove one of three training camps and stop using the village as a training ground
1999 IDF establishes an area which, for the purposes of military training, will be regarded as populated and thus safe from demolition.
1998 Village Council applies to Civil Administration for recognition of their Master Plan
1972 IDF begins to use the village as a live-fire training ground.

2022 On May 4, the Israeli High Court approved the eviction of some 1,200 Palestinians living in the twelve villages of Masafer Yatta, in the southern West Bank, after a two-decade legal dispute over land that has been repurposed by the Israeli army as a firing zone, and where Palestinians have lived for generations.
2013 The residents filed new petitions to the court. Again, the HCJ issued an interim injunction forbidding the state to expel the residents.
2012 On July 19, Israel sent an updated stance to the court, saying it plans to expel eight out of the 12 villages from the firing zone, comprising more than 1000 inhabitants.
2000 In March, the Israeli High Court issued an interim injunction permitting the villagers to return to their homes and cultivate their land pending a ruling in the case. The Court told the parties to hold an ‘arbitration process’, during which Israel simply reiterated their displacement plan to move the villagers to a different, far smaller area south of the city of Yatta. The communities refused.
1999 700 residents of Firing Zone 918 were evicted.
1981 Israel declared a new military training zone in the area of Masafer Yatta, spanning 3,000 hectares (30,000 dunams) within which 12 Palestinian villages are located: Jinbeh, Al-Mirkez, Al-Halaweh, Halat a-Dab’a, Al-Fakheit, A-Tabban, Al-Majaz, A-Sfai, Megheir Al-Abeid, Mufagara, A-Tuba, and Sarura.