Duma: Checkpoints have been set up at the village entrance
Husseim Dawabsha called me, asking how I am. I answer, ask him the same question.
He answers -everything is as usual here, except for what is not. As far as the local council is concerned, no special instructions. Better to stay indoors. “You know there are no shelters here”. He also adds in parentheses that they are not exactly targeted.
Husseim himself makes a living raising sheep and he sees the ‘sacrifice holiday’ – Eid Al Adha – as the fruit of his labor.
In the meantime, he labors building the house for his daughter Maryam, who will marry when the house stands complete.
July 31st will mark 10 years since that horrid murder by fire. What’s new? Checkpoints at the village entrance. No one is allowed in or out.
“Except for this, marquise, everything is fine”…
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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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