Around 5:00 P.M., two members of the Mur family were grazing their flock on their private land when about 10 soldiers and two masked settlers arrived. The soldiers took the shepherds’ cellphones and vandalized them, ordered them to leave the land and thre

Around 5:00 P.M., two members of the Mur family were grazing their flock on their private land when about 10 soldiers and two masked settlers arrived. The soldiers took the shepherds’ cellphones and vandalized them, ordered them to leave the land and threatened to shoot them if they didn’t. Before the shepherds had time to obey the order, the soldiers started shooting at them and at the flock from about 10 meters away, injuring three sheep. One of the soldiers also fired a tear gas canister at them. Two other sheep escaped in the general turmoil.

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Around 5:00 P.M., two members of the Mur family were grazing their flock on their private land when about 10 soldiers and two masked settlers arrived. The soldiers took the shepherds’ cellphones and vandalized them, ordered them to leave the land and threatened to shoot them if they didn’t. Before the shepherds had time to obey the order, the soldiers started shooting at them and at the flock from about 10 meters away, injuring three sheep. One of the soldiers also fired a tear gas canister at them. Two other sheep escaped in the general turmoil.
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