Afifi Sirwati is a teacher, trapped and angry. For the past month, she says, there has been no such thing as normal life. During the curfew, we can't go to bring medicine, to bring food, to bring anything we want. On the frontline with Palestinian-controlled Hebron, Israeli soldiers meet with a barrage of chanting and volleys of stones. The clashes have become a ritual but rubber-coated bullets are fired when the troops lose patience.
Cartoon shows on the television are the only escape for most family.
Khaled Sakouri says his children are as frustrated as he is that they are housebound. But I tell them it is too dangerous. They ask me why, but I can't explain to them why they close their schools. Khaled and his brothers run a pottery that is outside their area under curfew. In this area, nobody can work or can go out in our home, and I can't bring food and milk for my children.