Corona Times Report: Duma - I just wanted to say I was worried about you
Nighttime, under my covers I hide my hide, planning to sleep…
H., the grandfather from Duma village is on the phone:
“What, mom does not phone to ask how her son is doing??
“I just wanted to say that I’m worried about you. Don’t go out”.
I answered him that I’m trying my best to follow instructions and that I meant to call him in the morning.
S.’s brother has been appointed village elder. With a population of 3,000, this is a significant and influential role, but unpaid…
In his short time in office, the brother has managed to lower the village’s extensive debts by turning to those who can afford to help.
Guards have been posted at the entrance to the village. No one comes in or goes out. Whoever intends to do so is questioned.
Grandson A. has been joined by three other grandchildren and they have turned day into night and vice versa.
H. is about to finish his tiling work in 2 days and has no idea what he’ll do for a living afterward.
Everyone is endlessly concerned about the morrow.
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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