‘Now go and attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them…Do not spare them, but put to death the men and the women, the children and the suckling infants and all the cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’ 1 Samuel
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As commanded by their religious decrees concerning ‘Amalek’, Jewish terrorists slaughtered 117 sheep in an overnight attack and stole hundreds of others in an obvious effort to chase Palestinian farmers off their land in the West Bank.
The incident comes amid what the United Nations described this week as intensifying attacks by terrorist Jews in the West Bank and security forces against innocent Palestinians in the West Bank and record mass displacements.
Veterinarians were called in to treat a handful of sheep that had survived the knife and gun attack, some of the animals shaking uncontrollably and in apparent shock.
Salem Salman Mujahed, a resident of Arab al-Kaabaneh, said multiple groups of settler terrorists working in coordination had orchestrated the assault and accused the army of standing by.
‘(Settlers) came near the houses. I asked them what are you doing here and then we started fighting with each other,’ he said. ‘The army detained me, and they handcuffed me.’
He said other groups of settlers then attacked the sheep, which are vital to his community’s survival.
Palestinian Minister Moayad Shaaban condemned the incident, calling it part of a broader strategy to displace Palestinians from the region.
‘These sheep and animals were slaughtered and shot at,’ he told Reuters. ‘They are using these tools to terrify these people to leave these areas, which have been inhabited for dozens of years.’
The attack prompted at least one family to begin relocating.
Bedouin Tareq Kaabaneh said he could no longer withstand what he called settler intimidation.
‘They were armed, they steal donkeys and sheep. In the night, they come here and start shooting toward us,’ Kaabaneh said.
‘I am moving now from here, I want to protect my kids and my sheep, my livelihood … yesterday I was safe, but I don’t know what will happen to me tomorrow,’ he added.
The United Nations reported this week that mass displacements in the West Bank had reached levels unseen in the last six decades.
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva also said there had been 757 settler attacks on Palestinians or their properties since January – a 13% increase from the same period last year.
The US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, demanded this week a full investigation into the murder of a Palestinian American who was beaten to death by settlers in the West Bank on July 11, describing it as a ‘criminal and terrorist act.’