Like sheep to the slaughter

[Comadreja]

Like sheep to the slaughter

By Nir Hasson



"If they had taken a pistol and shot us in the head, a bullet for each of us, it would have been less terrible than what they did to us. They took the bread from our mouths," says Othman Jabarin, a resident of the Jimba cave village in the South Hebron Hills.




A year ago an entire herd of sheep belonging to Jabarin and his two brothers was caught by inspectors from the Agriculture Ministry and the Nature and Parks Authority. The herd, which numbered 250 sheep and provided a dignified livelihood for over 30 souls, was slaughtered and the meat sold. Since then the three families have been reduced to a life of poverty.

Last week, attorney Shlomo Lecker, the legal representative of the Jabarin brothers, filed a damages suit in the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court against the defense and agriculture ministries and the Nature and Parks Authority.

The extended Jabarin family is the largest family in the Jimba cave village, which is very close to the Green Line, just south of the settlement of Sussia in the South Hebron Hills. For years the residents of the village suffered harassment from their settler neighbors as well as from the army, which even expelled them from the village at the end of 1999. A court order from the High Court of Justice returned them to their homes in April 2000.

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[Jim Sagle]

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[newyorican]

3. Is that the mating call?

Jimbo you freakazoid...

[kalian]

4. Must be....see all the Likuds running around...?

:eyes:

[Lithos]

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