A settler reports a sheep theft – apparently a false accusation – setting off this chain of events: The army raids a Palestinian village, joins settlers in stealing dozens of sheep and goats, and, along the way, shoots two young men dead
Israeli settlers have been repeatedly entering the Palestinian al-Mughayyir village under IDF protection, grazing flocks near the village homes, and then reporting their livestock was harmed. At least seven Palestinians were then wounded as the IDF responded
The death of Hamdy Na’asan, shot in the back, was not an unexpected or isolated event. Amira Hass reports: “Land that is hard to steal by means of Israeli laws – the masterpiece of our finest legal scholars – is stolen by means of the settlers’ violent, sacred fire and code of silence.”