West Bank Farmers Pay Heavy Price for Israel’s Failure to Stamp Out Settler Violence
Palestinian land and nearby Israeli settlements in the South Hebron Hills of the West Bank.
Photographer: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis News/Getty Images
Amir and Khaled Shanaran went out to their fields in the southern Hebron Hills at around 3:30 pm on a recent Saturday.
An Israeli settler was grazing sheep on their land, and they asked him to leave. Within minutes, two more settlers arrived on tractors. One of them pulled out a gun and shot Amir in the neck, killing him instantly. Khaled was shot in the stomach, and is hospitalized with wounds that left him paralyzed, according to their uncle, Ehsan Shanaran, human rights groups and local authorities.