Another murder of a Palestinian at the hands of Israelis.
“Israeli Troops Shoot and Kill a Palestinian Shepherd Reading the Quran on His Land”
*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.
The widow, Maryam, brings out a tattered plastic bag. She carefully pulls out its contents – everything she found in her dead husband's pockets: a bag containing a few 5-shekel coins; a cheap, bloodstained watch that is still working; a cellphone with a bullet hole in it; a tattered wallet and a Quran. The cover and the pages of the tiny volume are also bloodstained; there's a bookmark still inside it. It is Ramadan, and Fakher Jaber had been reading from it before the soldiers showed up.
Gideon LevyAlex LevacApr 6, 2024 4:24 pm IDT
Haaretz newspaper excerpt.