It was the third time in a month, just the names and location are different: Settler shot and killed a Palestinian farmer on his family’s land. Before the attack, the assailants’ leader said: ‘Abraham gave the land only to the Jews. I am the law and I am also above the law’

It took the bereaved father a long time to tell us the story, in a torrent of fluent Hebrew, almost without tears, four days after a settler murdered his beloved son before his eyes – after the father himself had been shot and wounded.