Corona disperses Palestinian families between Jerusalem and Bethlehem

Aseel soldier - occupied Jerusalem

Since her marriage in 2013 and her move from Bethlehem to Jerusalem, the Palestinian young woman, Tamara Jokman, has been used to restrict her movement because she does not have an easy permit to do so, but she never imagined that she would be prevented from seeing her family in Bethlehem because of a lethal virus that spreads daily.

Corona is the ghost who controls the details of Tamara's daily life and turns her dreams into the evening into nightmares.

Speaking to Al-Jazeera Net, the young woman's voice sounded dismal, describing her feelings towards the pictures and videos coming from the city of the cradle of Christ, which turned into a ghost town after the curfew was imposed.

"I watched a video showing empty streets of Bethlehem, all of its stores closed, and accompanying these scenes, Mawtani's song," she said. "I did not hope for myself. I cried with burning because I am accustomed to the vitality and recovery of its streets, and I draw the faces of its residents in the shops that closed their doors to another notice."

Parting sweethearts
The first month passed without Tamara being able to enter Bethlehem to visit her family, and the most painful thing so far was that she was unable to visit her mother's grave - who died months ago - on the mother's day to give her a bouquet of flowers and tell her that "life is not the same as it was before her departure, And that her father and two brothers are in the quarantine of home and they need her presence among them more than ever before. "

Tamara does not stop thinking about her father, Abdullah, and her two brothers, Tony and Elias. She said that her father, who works in the tourism sector, is now unemployed, and that his psychology has been deeply affected negatively.

"I wished that they lived near me so that I could prepare food for them and meet their needs in the absence of my mother, who did not all get used to the new lifestyle after her departure."

The 30-year-old sighed and silenced for a while, then added, "I feel that life was divided into two parts: our life before the Corona virus and our lives after that whose features have not been clarified yet, and this is what worries me most."

It is not only Tamara who is worried about the fact that about a month has passed since the city of Bethlehem was closed and isolated from its surroundings. Rather, all the women who resemble her story and left Bethlehem years ago after their Jerusalemite husbands were linked.

Carmen Lama moved to live with her husband in Jerusalem in 2005 and left Bethlehem and left her elderly parents alone there.

Best wishes
During her conversation with Al-Jazeera Net, she repeated the phrase "God forbid, if one of them needs to be taken to the hospital for an emergency, who will accompany them? If one of them falls and gets a sudden break or stroke, what will I do? No one is here besides me while I am tied away from them."

From the first day of the Palestinian security forces tightening the comprehensive closure of the city between the flesh of Carmen, the heart of Carmen is in mourning for the city to which it belongs and its elderly parents.

"I stand helpless before my sons Basil and Mark's repeated questions about the date of our next visit to their grandparents' home, and I feel that my mother and father are like my sons now and that I am responsible for them in light of the expulsion of my only brother in Germany," she says.

Carmen prays for the end of this ordeal and feels that "her and her family's safe escape from this virus after the end of its crisis will be a holiday and a date celebrated annually."

Carmen's concern for her parents was translated by her father, who considered that after him and his forced wife after their daughter in these circumstances an injustice he hoped would be lifted soon.

"I hope that Carmen lives next to us and helps us meet our daily demands, because life in Bethlehem has become harsh in light of the comprehensive closure, which we do not know a time limit for its end."

The muttering wishes of this elderly elderly and the prayers of his Armenian wife, Aleppo, were mixed with the voice of their daughter Carmen, who wished that this cloud would be removed so that she could again enter the heart of her heart in the city of Bethlehem, to thank God for the disappearance of this disease in the Church of Saint Katrina in the courtyard of the Church of the Nativity, which has been sitting on its seats since its early childhood. .