Monitor reporters witnessed a shooting attack by West Bank settlers on Palestinian shepherds as an Israeli army jeep stood by. Officials and diplomats say the attacks further a campaign they’ve warned of for years: to push Palestinians off their lands.
Mohammed Al Araareh, a Bedouin shepherd
who just weeks before had been pushed off his land by settler attacks,
points to the valley where armed settlers clashed with another shepherd,
in Rammun, West Bank, Jan. 20, 2024
First the Bedouin shepherd family spotted the truck, then the five armed men dressed in white. Then the gunfire started.
Israeli settlers, drawn to another shepherd’s flock grazing in the valley 200 yards below, fired what appeared to be M16 rifles in the air and toward the shepherd.
Only weeks before, the Al Araareh family was driven off their land and lost half their possessions. On Saturday, perched up the hill from the skirmish, it looked to them like they would have to pick up and move again – fast.... READ MORE https://www.csmonitor.com/Daily/2024/20240126/Settler-extremists-widen-campaign-against-Palestinians?cmpid=shared-twitter
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