Three of the settlers with the sheep and the soldiers on Rib’i’s land. Photo: Basel al-Adrah, B’Tselem, 11 May 2024
On Saturday, 11 May 2024, around 2:30 P.M., four settlers, some of them teens, grazed two flocks of sheep on land belonging to ‘Ali Rib’i (60) in the Wadi al-Humra area, south of the village of a-Tuwani. The land has wheat fields and an olive grove. After about 20 minutes, a soldier known to local residents as a settler arrived on an ATV, and a few minutes later, five more soldiers arrived in a military jeep. The soldiers talked to the settlers, but did not remove them. Rib’i called the police, and officers who arrived about an hour later removed the settlers from his land.
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.