A settler shot a Palestinian father. Soldiers arrived to detain his son

At around 6:30 p.m. on April 17, 16-year-old Ilyas Saeed Rabaa spotted three armed Israeli settlers near his family’s land in Al-Rakeez, a quiet village in the Masafer Yatta region of the South Hebron Hills.

The settlers, equipped with a generator and power drill, were preparing to implant iron pillars on farmland that Ilyas’s 60-year-old father, Sheikh Saeed Rabaa, had cultivated with olive trees since 2012. “I saw them near our home,” Ilyas recalled. “I…