Duma: Settlers plan monument and outpost expansion on Duma lands
On Thursday morning, May 29, a telephone report was received from Sliman Dawabshe from Duma that forces of the occupation and the Israeli Civil Administration are wreaking Havoc at Duma village: uprooting trees, destroying fences and irrigation pipes around the Al Shakara neighborhood, destroying everything they run into.
Abu Jibreesh, an inhabitant, did not manage to collect the sacks of barley from his field and no one dared to approach.
The next morning, the head of the Duma Council, Sliman Dawabshe, sent me the following message:
Today, Friday, May 30, in the morning, the residents of the village of Duma woke up to the sound of a tractor, a large excavator, working and leveling their land near the main entrance of the village, uprooting trees to open a new road to a new outpost that is planned to be built there. This is according to what was conveyed to the head of the council from the Palestinian DCO,
At that time, the settlers marched in a large march through the village of Al-Mughayyir east of Duma and passed through Duma and the village of Majdal to the Aqraba junction.
This involves the establishment of a monument on the lands of Duma in addition to the transfer of the ‘Angels of Peace’ outpost from the village of Al-Mughayyir to the lands of Duma.
The expansion of the ‘Angels of Peace’ is a “revenge” for the fact that David Libi, who worked for the Ministry of Defense as an engineering vehicle operator, was killed on May 29 by an explosive device in the northern Gaza Strip. Libi grew up in the ‘Angels of Peace’ outpost (Clarification by Hanna Barag)
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Duma
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Duma
A village in the Nablus governorate, with 3,000 residents. They owned some 18,000 dunams, 500 dunams of which the village itself was built. However, after the settlement of Migdaleim annexed a large part of their land, their area was reduced to only 2,000 dunams.On July 31, 2015, two houses in the town were torched with petrol bombs. Sa'ad and Riham Dawabsha, and their infant, Ali Sa'ad Dawabsha, were burned to death. Another son was seriously injured. "Revenge" and "King Messiah" were spray painted on the walls of the house. The trial of the arsonist, the settler Amiram Ben Uliel, is still underway (2019), and a plea bargain was signed in May 2018 with the minor who participated in the planning of the arson.
The closure imposed by the army, the poor roads that they are forced use due to the lack of paving permits from the Civil Administration, along with the lack of public transportation, all these difficulties cut off the village from nearby Nablus and Ramallah.
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