Sheep Stolen By Israel Colonizers Ruins Eid Festivities for Palestinian Shepherd

The settlers stole around 45 sheep from her ​home in Masafer Yatta, a collection of Palestinian hamlets near Hebron, she said. Before the theft, they stole the family's guard ​dogs, so no one was alerted when the men broke in before dawn on May 21 and herded ⁠the animals away. "This is our livelihood, my husband and I live from the income from these sheep. I don't have anything to get ​treatment for my husband or spend on myself," Rasheed, whose husband has cancer, told Reuters. Eid al-Adha, one of Islam's two main festivals, marks ​the climax of the annual Haj pilgrimage, when Muslims slaughter animals to commemorate the willingness of Ibrahim, or Abraham, to sacrifice his son on God’s command, often distributing meat to the poor.