The Israeli settlers quietly waging war on the Palestinian countryside – Mondoweiss

While having tea in the village of Jaba in the southern Jordan Valley, Rabbi Arik Ascherman’s phone rang. An Israeli settler was grazing his flock on private Palestinian land in the nearby Bedouin village of Mukhmas. Ascherman, founder and director of the Israeli human rights NGO, Torat Tzedek, drove to Mukhmas, donned body armor, and confronted the settler and his sheep with a siren-blaring bullhorn in an attempt to push the settler off Palestinian land.

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