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Khirbet a-Rakeez, Masafer Yatta, South Hebron Hills: Israeli settlers vandalize fences, cut down fruit trees and steal water tanks

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Khirbet a-Rakeez, Masafer Yatta, South Hebron Hills: Israeli settlers vandalize fences, cut down fruit trees and steal water tanks

Part of the fence vandalized by the settlers. Photo courtesy of the landowner.
Part of the fence vandalized by the settlers. Photo courtesy of the landowner.

On Saturday, 24 February 2024, at around 4:00 P.M., Na’im al-‘Adrah (56) arrived at his land east of the community of Kh. a-Rakeez and discovered that settlers had cut a 200-meter-long wire fence, knocked down iron bars, vandalized a masonry fence, stolen two water tanks and cut down 10 fruit trees.

Al-‘Adrah called the police, but no one came. He filed a complaint at the Kiryat Arba police station that same day.

Israel’s regime of apartheid and occupation is inextricably bound up in human rights violations. B’Tselem strives to end this regime, as that is the only way forward to a future in which human rights, democracy, liberty and equality are ensured to all people, both Palestinian and Israeli, living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.