Returning to ruins in Gaza: ‘We have nothing left’
The ceasefire has enabled thousands of people to return to their places of origin, but many are met with nothing more than a mountain of rubble where their homes once stood
Mohamed al-Najjar, a 24-year-old law student, used the first day of the ceasefire on Sunday to return to his family home in Rafah, located in the southernmost part of Gaza. What he encountered, eight months after fleeing the arrival of Israeli troops, was a heap of rubble. “We have nothing left,” he said in text and video messages sent via phone. Around him, most of the neighborhood looked the same — reduced to ruins — on streets where not even the asphalt remains.
