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.

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    7 months ago

    :the isolation by a warring nation of an enemy area (such as a harbor) by troops or warships to prevent passage of persons or supplies broadly

    :a restrictive measure designed to obstruct the commerce and communications of an unfriendly nation.

    The definition.

    And do you really think causing a humanitarian crisis was going to hurt Hamas? You don’t fight an idea by hurting people. You fight it by backing off and letting the people there see the radical nature. Otherwise you’re just making your own resistance to fight forever.

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      7 months ago

      That definition has nothing to do with closing a country border crossing which is what the article you linked talked about. Seriously, if you’re going to quote me the dictionary, at least know what you’re talking about.

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        7 months ago

        They controlled everything into and out of Gaza. That’s not “a border crossing”.

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          7 months ago

          That was after the terrorist attacks that led to the naval blockade. In the article you linked, this was still when Israel had just closed one of their border crossings. Seriously, go back and read.