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<p>HEBRON (Ma’an) &#8212; Israeli police detained a Hebron shepherd for hours on Tuesday, saying he had allowed his heard of sheep and goats to illegally enter a &#8220;closed military zone.&#8221;</p>
<p>Bilal Hathaleen, 25 from the village of Um Al-Kheir in the south Hebron hills was grazing his flock not far from home when he was apprehended by police and told that he was in a zone too close to the nearby Karmel settlement.</p>
<p>After his release, the shepherd told Ma&#8217;an he had been detained for four hours, and had not been aware that the area was a closed zone.</p>
<p>&#8220;Already we have limited access to grazing lands,&#8221; he said, lamenting prospects for adequately feeding his flock.</p>
<p>&#8220;Herders are regularly denied access to lands near Israeli settlements,&#8221; Human rights activist Hisham Sharabati told Ma&#8217;an, saying he had received reports of settler violence and harassment from Karmel residents over the previous two days, that kept locals away from the area.</p>
<p>He said the issue was getting acute, since water wells for animals to drink from are located in the region south of the settlement.</p>
<p>Another Umm Al-Kheir resident, 40-year-old shepherd Yasser Hathaleen, told Ma&#8217;an that the day earlier, an Israeli soldier had kicked a she-goat, killing it.</p>
<p>Settlers throw stones repeatedly, he said, trying to usher shepherds out of their pasture land. &#8220;We make our living this way,&#8221; he added, fearing &#8220;they want us to go so they can expand the settlement.&#8221;</p>
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