Three soldiers pounce on a shepherd sitting outside his sheep pen. They knock him over and then one of them shoots him to death at point-blank range. Fakher Jaber, a father of four, was suspected of involvement in an incident that probably never happened
On the last day of his life, two and a half weeks ago, the shepherd and his wife got up at 5:30 A.M., as usual, and immediately went out together to milk the ewes. With their flock of 120 sheep, their work is never done. Maryam recalls now that they didn't manage to eat breakfast before the daily Ramadan fast began. After about two hours they finished milking. Fakher took the sheep out to graze and she began to make cheese from the milk, which they sell in Nablus to help make their living.
After he returned the sheep to their pen, Fakher sat down near it, removed the Quran from his pocket and began to read from it. Maryam finished making dinner. She remembers that everything was normal and relatively peaceful that afternoon, in this beleaguered community, living under the constant threat of invasions by settlers. Suddenly Maryam heard shouting. She rushed outside and saw three Israelis in uniform yelling at and wrestling with her husband. One of the men was masked, which led her to believe that they were settlers – of the type that frequently assault the shepherding communities, graze their livestock on the residents' lands and water their flocks from their wells.
To be fair this is how American police kill people. Engage perfectly innocent person, escalate it because they aren't 100% respectful of your authority and finally shoot them because they didn't follow your orders after you claimed to see a weapon.
Which country isn’t so afraid of the US bombing them in retaliation that they’ll stand up to us? There aren’t many. And to stop Israel at this point you will need boots on the ground.
Russia is too bogged down in Ukraine, and China doesn’t want to have their trade affected.
All the schools exploded, therefore if anyone learned how to read its because Hama's taught them. And why would anyone need to learn how to read except to read the instructions on imported weaponsbecause they're a soldier?
QED antisemites
And Jews will declare war against fascism once again. Torah Jews seem the legitimate channel for Jews to act against facism and support for Palestinian existence.
You can't. Those guns and bombs they use, we pay for 'em. If we charge them with war crimes, we are charging ourselves with war crimes. And we don't want that, don't we?
I agree, and not applicable in Palestine generally, but you can be a settler as in settling next to other people. Someone farming land doesn't mean you can't farm next to them and peacefully coexist.
There were two bullet holes in his chest and one near his groin.
Am I reading that right, did they actually try to shoot his penis?
Also from the article...
Three days after Fakher's killing, three other shepherds from the same community were arrested on suspicion of assaulting a settler. They are still in custody.
Is there anything in Jewish religious texts about shepherds tending flocks as an analogy for their version of god and followers like Christians have? Murdering a literal shepherd tending his flock while reading his version of a bible is off the charts I think. Not that anyone uses religion for anything other than justification for whatever awfulness they’re engaging in.
Haaretz is weird. Many articles are the some old israeli propaganda but they have some left wing writers which write and investigate israeli war crimes and even articles against their government.
The person who writes the article makes all the difference on Haaretz.
The quoted article is a bit short on details of what the shepherd was supposed to have done.
Not sure if you mean to warrant an investigation by the three troops, or to trigger the actual shooting.
If it's the actual shooting, from the article (highlighted parts)...
The panicked Maryam and her children watched Fakher, who was on the ground. According to B'Tselem field researcher Salma a-Deb'i, who investigated the case, he grabbed a stone, evidently for self defense. It never left his hand. To his family's horror, one of the troops pointed his rifle at Fakher – a man probably the age of that soldier's father, laying on the ground. No fewer than three bullets were fired directly into the shepherd's body. Maryam screamed in terror and apparently fainted. The eldest son, Qusay, tried coming to his father's aid but the soldiers threatened to shoot him too. Little Ibrahim also saw his father slain before his eyes. "My father is gone, my father is gone," the boy shouted, again and again.
"Following receipt of a report of the assault of an Israeli boy by two Palestinians near the Gitit roadblock on March 19, forces from the Jordan Valley Brigade rushed to the scene. A disturbance involving some 30 Palestinians developed, which included throwing of stones at the forces. The troops acted to disperse the disturbance and fired at one of the suspects. A hit was detected. The circumstances of the incident are under review."
It's West Bank colonists that israel now employs as soldiers to terrorize Palestinians. They make up any story they want and the IDF will claim it as the truth and declare the soldiers innocent
Sadly, until the IDF starts investigating and prosecuting their members for war crimes (and stops assigning people without the required education, skills and psychological traits to essentially do police duties) - some parts of the IDF will continue to perform the role of recruiting Palestinians into extremist and militant organizations. :(
I would not be surprised if one of the dead man's relatives decides at some point to take up weapons.
In a witness vs witness situation I doubt everything, yes. How should we know who is saying the truth? Because of the heart warming story about how they life their live I should route for the shepherd? I do not. I usually doubt everything, always, regardless who says it or what it is about. To me, this is hearsay. The other side was not even asked to tell us their side.
They relate, directly, because what is happening now is that Israel is attempting to eradicate and eliminate Hamas, once and for all.
The problems people have with “proportionality” collapse under any scrutiny... Should the US have stopped attacking Japan once we reached the total number of servicemen killed at Pearl Harbor? Or the allies stop once a “proportionate” number of Germans had died?
No, obviously, because these were enemies openly dedicated to taking over and/or wiping out whole populations. Were innocent civilians killed in the process? Certainly. Is Hamas deliberately seeing to it that civilians are used as defense and propaganda sacrificial la,bs? Unquestionably.
Finally, Hamas could end hostilities today by returning all hostages and surrendering its leaders to an international court. But the PR game is wildly successful, especially among this crowd, so why would they ever?
If we're just making comparisons to justify murder, do you know what's worse than murdering 7000 people? Murdering 30000 people. But being better by comparison doesn't make you right. There will always be someone worse to compare yourself to.
And Israel murders Palestines at a scale that dwarfs any responses they've made, sometimes as a part of this cycle of violence, some just because they want the land they are on.
On the last day of his life, two and a half weeks ago, the shepherd and his wife got up at 5:30 A.M., as usual, and immediately went out together to milk the ewes.
Can we please stop with this dramatization?
Edit: All the downvoters probably did poorly in social studies. Did you all pay attention when they taught you about journalistic integrity? Judging by how most of you argue, I'm guessing you slept through that just like the lessons on citing.
No. These are fucking people dying. Lives ending. You need to remember that. People, living breathing human beings every Fucking day so some monstrous ghouls can cum. Its disgusting, and every moment it continues should be a stain on your, on my, on every living person's fucking soul.
They want us to cry over every dead zionist shutzstaffel piece of shit. I bet if I checked your profile, I wouldn't find you objecting to those entirely made up¹ sob stories
¹because they have no humanity. They are only atrocities. Only killing, abusing defiling. They can do no other.