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Khirbet a-Tuba, South Hebron Hills: Settlers grazed their flock on private land and stole a bucket

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Khirbet a-Tuba, South Hebron Hills: Settlers grazed their flock on private land and stole a bucket

The settler with his sheep in Ibrahim ‘Awad’s field. Photo courtesy of local residents
The settler with his sheep in Ibrahim ‘Awad’s field. Photo courtesy of local residents

On Thursday, 14 April 2024, in the early afternoon, settlers invaded a wheat field belonging to Ibrahim ‘Awad (82) with their flock. The field lies next to ‘Awad’s house, south of the community of Kh. a-Tuba. The settlers let their flock graze in the field for about three hours. Family members called the police, but no officers came. At around 4:30 P.M., one of the settlers stole the bucket from the family’s water cistern, and the family members called the police again, but again, no one showed up. The settlers eventually left around 6:30 P.M.

The next evening, an armed settler set up a tent about 200 meters from ‘Awad’s house and spent the night in it with his flock. In the morning, the settler took the tent and the flock to a nearby plot owned by ‘Omar Jundiyah, and stayed there until 20 April 2024.

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