Deep pain in a beautiful West Bank home: The Arrabis’ dead sons
Al Jazeera
Israeli soldiers killed one brother after another. Eventually all three were laid to rest beside their father.
Jenin, occupied West Bank, Palestine – Muhammad Arrabi’s family, what’s left of it, lives in the heart of Jenin’s Old City in a house the family has handed down for 185 years.
The Arrabi family had numbered 10 – a mother, a father, four daughters and four sons – until the Israeli army took the lives of three of their sons, culminating in its shooting of Muhammad, the third brother to be killed.
A visitor to Jenin’s Old City will note the beautiful houses, which have been passed down through generations of families and are still lived in today. The Arrabi family home is one.
But nearly every home in Jenin has been damaged somehow, either in the stones that make up its walls or the people who live inside them.
Known for its history of resistance, Jenin has long been a flashpoint in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
