6 am to 10 am.

An unusually quiet morning accompanying Ahmad and his sheep near Al-Auja, southern Jordan Valley Ta’ayush תעאיוש تعايش – no settlers and no soldiers came to disturb the sheep – but what they found to graze in this desert landscape is hard to comprehend.

And even this meager meal they are most often deprived of, when the illegal settler Omer tells the army to declare this a closed military zone – which fits in with the government’s plans to make area C free of Palestinians.

Returning home, the sheep must drink. Water is brought in with tankers, when the lush springs of Al-Auja and its elaborate irrigation system have run dry, with Israel pumping up the ground water for its settlement policy.