An international campaign to save the pitch in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem appears to have forced the authorities to reconsider.
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It said the Aida Youth Centre's pitch was constructed without the necessary permits.
It said the demolition was necessary for security reasons.
An international campaign to save it, including a petition with more than half a million signatures, appears to have forced the authorities to reconsider. The club, however, said it had not yet received any official notification.
It is barely a 10th of the size of a full-scale football field, there are patches of rust on the goalposts and, towering over the length of one of the touchlines, the architecture of conflict looms large in Israel's concrete security barrier.
But while it may not rank high up among the world's iconic sporting venues, this children's football club has found itself at the centre of a hard-fought international campaign for its survival.
And despite the asymmetrical odds as it took on the Israeli state, that campaign appears - for now at least - to have worked.
The club has won a reprieve against the threat of demolition by the Israeli military, which claimed that the pitch was far too close to the barrier.
On the very northern edge of Bethlehem, construction of the pitch began in 2020 with the aim of providing a place to practise football for more than 200 young players from the nearby Aida refugee camp.
The cramped and crowded streets contain the homes of the descendants of Palestinian families who were forced or who fled from their homes during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
On 3 November last year, as the children made their short walk from the camp for that day's training, they found a notice pinned to the gate of the football field declaring it to be illegal.
The notice was followed by a demolition order, issued at the end of December.
"We don't have anywhere else to play, 10-year-old Naya told me, wearing a Brazil shirt with the name of the footbal
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