Fadi Al-Asa-Bethlehem

Sufyan Al-Wahsh, a young Palestinian, is preparing his mother's dreams, Ahlam Samhan Al-Wahsh, to speak with her mother and her brothers through an application that allows a video call after the interruption of direct social communication between them due to the closing procedures that took place in the Palestinian cities following the Corona pandemic.

Ahlam lives in Bethlehem, south of Jerusalem, while her family lives in Nablus in the north, and she is cut off from them after the local authorities isolated Bethlehem in which the first Corona injuries appeared in early March, before there were injuries in different Palestinian cities, to be isolated from each other. Like what happened in many countries of the world.

Dreams - with the help of Sufyan - found nothing but applications on smartphones to check on her family during the blessed month of Ramadan, as well as on her two daughters, one of whom lives in Ramallah in the middle of the West Bank, and the other in Italy, and what Helm helps to end the separation is that she lives with her two sons Firas, Sufyan and her grandchildren The three.

Ahlam started talking to her elderly mother and reassured her health before talking to her siblings and their children, and the pleasure seemed clear on her face while she was talking to them, before she asked Sufyan to include her daughter Lina in Italy for a group video conversation.

Lina says to them, "Even while you are in Palestine, you cannot see each other, so we are all in the same state." She speaks from Italy, and her mother is in Bethlehem, and her grandmother and her uncles in Nablus, her uncle laughs and responds to her. Praise be to God, who lived in the time of the Internet to live with Corona under this isolation. "

The family call is extended to most of the countries of the world where people are communicating through smartphones and various applications, especially those that allow video.

Global statistics show a marked increase in the use of the Internet, apart from the tendency of the companies operating these applications to compete to provide better sound and picture quality, as well as the ease of controlling communication and its tools without complications, to win the largest number of subscribers at different cultural levels.

Sufyan preparing the phone for his mother (Al-Jazeera)

In addition to the fact that some companies providing Internet access witnessed an upward growth in a short time, the peak rate increased by 20-40% over the rates before the Corona pandemic.

Experts say - according to a New York Times report based on data from sources specialized in digital research and statistics - that 2020 will be the year of digital broadcasting on the Internet.

Concerns about life
The Palestinian atmosphere is not free of troubles, so she dreams of her mother’s dreams if he had arrived from her brother Ammar (who has been detained for 18 years with the Israeli occupation authorities) any new, or any new information about him was received in the context of quarantine and the occupation prevented the visit, as well as during the month of Ramadan Virtue.

The family exchanges concern about the conditions of the prisoners who have no way to contact them or check on their conditions, the brothers promise to prepare a picture of their captive brother Ammar so that it is ready in the nearest supportive event for the Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli occupation prisons.

Ahlam hangs pictures of her brother with their mother on the wall in her house, and tells Al-Jazeera Net that she could not take a picture with him, she is a liberated prisoner and a feminist activist who was arrested and cruel investigation in which her teeth were lost and her nose was broken, and Ahlam knows completely that the occupant does not know mercy, but she carries certainty Changing the conditions and liberating her brother and prisoners in prisons.

Prisoner Ammar (Ahlam's brother) with his mother (Al-Jazeera)

The family’s talk is only to return again to the drinks and food that she missed during the holy month of Ramadan this year. Ahlam asks her mother to keep her share of the juice and food she was deprived of and did not eat with them this year.

Everyone hopes that this cloud will be over, the stone will end, and that life will return to normal for direct communication between people.