On the morning of 31 December 2009, the Israeli military, using a small Bobcat bulldozer, destroyed buildings belonging to the Sultan and al-Za'atari families in the Hebron neighborhood of al-Bweireh.  At the al-Za'atari house, the military destroyed a dovecote and the stables where the family kept their goats and horse.  The army then destroyed a mechanic’s shop/garage, where a member of the Sultan family fixed farm equipment and compressors.