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Israeli Settlers Have Found a New Way to Abuse Palestinian Shepherds: Bankrupting Them [1]

['Gideon Levy']

Date: 2024-01-27

Seven-hundred sheep are scampering to freedom. A few pause to gobble weeds, some are actually limping. The dash for freedom evokes the galloping of antelopes in Africa when they ford rivers. Equal measures of unbounded joy and great turmoil. The sheep have just been liberated from the pen that was built specially to hold them after they were impounded by Israel's security forces. The animals were ambushed when they passed through what has been declared a forbidden zone. Their owners, Palestinian shepherds who reside on the other side of the highway, had to pay the inconceivable, draconian sum of 150,000 shekels (almost $40,000) in cash to the Jordan Valley Regional Council, run by the settlers, in order to get the animals back.

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[1] Url: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-01-27/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/israeli-settlers-have-found-a-new-way-to-abuse-palestinian-shepherds-bankrupting-them/0000018d-4822-dc44-a5bf-c8b681660000

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