The Caterpillar D9 is a specific series of track-type tractor. A special Israeli license is required to drive such a bulldozer over a Palestinian home. The same is true for the backhoe loader, which the Civil Administration uses to destroy the humble dirt roads and desperate water pipes of the Palestinians in the South Hebron Hills. For a road sweeper, too – like the one the Supreme Court justices use to clear their consciences – a special Israeli license is needed.
But the sweeper has not been invented that can clear the expulsion from the homes and the destruction of the communities of more than 1,000 people, the Palestinians living in the desert frontier area in the South Hebron Hills, Masafer Yatta, a cluster of Palestinian villages – called Firing Zone 918 in the military order that declared it and in the shameful ruling that the Supreme Court, sitting as the High Court of Justice, issued on the eve of Independence Day 5782. After more than 20 years of legal proceedings, the justices in Jerusalem gave the government the green light, which only they may give, to commit the war crime of forced population transfer.
Not that the Israeli torment and the dispossession efforts against the Palestinians in the area stopped during the years of High Court proceedings. The inhabitants
— source Jews For Justice For Palestinians | Hagai El-Ad, Haaretz | 9 May 2022