(9 May 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Duma, West Bank – 9 May 2024
1. Wide of demolished area in the West Bank village of Duma
2. Various of demolished tents of Zawahiri family
3. Wide of Zawahiri family members setting next to demolished tents
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammed Zawahiri, farmer whose tent was demolished:
"The Israeli civil administration arrived at 9:00 a.m. and demolished my house and my brother’s house. After that, they arrested my brother because we refused to comply with the demolition orders they gave us. They don’t need demolition orders, they came in the morning and started demolishing the houses, as you can see."
5. Children walking next to demolished tents
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammed Zawahiri, farmer whose tent was demolished:
"After the war that started on Oct. 7, our suffering by the settlers has increased. They started attacking us day and night, which forced us to migrate and move here, to the lands of Duma village. Today, they came and demolished the houses that were built here by the families who were displaced seven months ago from the Ein Rashash area."
7. Cutaway of Zawahiri family members
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammed Zawahiri, farmer whose tent was demolished:
"The Israeli escalation has been happening for a long time, not just today or yesterday, but it has intensified and become more violent and forceful after the war on Oct. 7. They started punishing and displacing the people and Bedouins living in Area C to Area B, as they claim. They want the land empty without inhabitants."
9. Zawahiri family members removing belongings
10. Wide of kids
11. Wide of sheep
12. Mid of kids
13. Various of demolished area
STORYLINE:
Israeli forces demolished on Thursday a cluster of tents and shacks belonging to Palestinians in the village of Duma, in the occupied West Bank.
Mohammed Zawahiri, a father of seven whose tent was demolished, said they fled the Ein Rashash area due to a spike in settler attacks after the start of the war on Oct. 7, and came to Duma to build their tents.
Duma is in a section of the West Bank known as Area B: Its civil affairs are governed by the Palestinian Authority, but the Israeli military is in charge of its security.
In the days following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel, more than 100 Bedouin Arabs that were living a nomadic lifestyle in the pastures south of Duma relocated to the fringes of town, in search of greater safety and resources.
"After the war that started on Oct. 7, our suffering by the settlers has increased. They started attacking us day and night, which forced us to migrate and move here," Zawahiri said.
The Bedouin Arabs living near Duma are one of 16 such communities in the West Bank that have relocated because of settler violence or threats since the start of 2023.
AP video shot by Imad Issied
Production: Jalal Bwaitel
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