When the latest Gaza flare-up hit the news, the plight of the region’s Jews had a human face— Shai’keh Shaked's
Imagine looking out your kitchen window, past the plants and flowers, beyond the bikes lying in a heap, and seeing a Hamas gunman.
Picture having to drive through fields to go to the supermarket because Islamic Jihad might have you in the crosshairs of an anti-tank missile.
That’s the reality that Shai’keh Shaked had to endure last week as the jihadi terror group threatened bloody vengeance for the arrest of their West Bank leader in Jenin.
The 70-year-old farmer, a resident of Netiv Ha’asarah on the Gaza border, lives in the last row of houses before the concrete barrier that separates Israel from the terror statelet. With the IDF on alert for cross-border attacks, local residents were banned from moving anywhere within sight of Hamas positions. As the IDF moved to strike Islamic Jihad leaders in Gaza to end the standoff, border area residents continued to be locked in their homes.
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