Residents and mourners gathered to bury arson attack victim, Saad Dawabshe, 32 — the father of slain Palestinian toddler Ali, in the West Bank town of Duma on Saturday, the Forward reports.
Saad Dawabshe passed away the morning after the village completed its mourning period for young Ali. Now they would begin a new cycle of sorrow.
“People were so sad and angry,” said Abd al Salam Dawabshe, the village council head. Many people in Duma, a village of 3,000 Palestinians, share the last name of the murdered family.
Duma residents have sought to memorialize the slain father and son, even as they are waiting to learn the fate of the other family members. They staged a memorial at a makeshift outdoor photo gallery. The photos, hung with clothespins on blue twine, depicted Ali’s short life and also clashes between Israeli Defense Forces and young Palestinians in the days after the attack.
There were also drawings of the murdered infant alongside Muhammad Abu Khdeir, the 16-year-old East Jerusalem Palestinian who was burnt alive by Israelis in the lead up to last summer’s war between Israel and Hamas.
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