Who’s responsible for reducing Gaza village to rubble?
Editor | Jan 21, 2009 | Comments 0
: When the Assi brothers returned to their village, most of it was missing. Their house was flattened, and their olive groves crushed. The only thing left standing was a single almond tree. Of all the areas hit in the Israeli military campaign, Juhr el Dik, a farming village on Gaza's eastern border, has had more than its share of loss. In its center, a giant swath of destruction spreads like a sea where about 40 houses once stood. “It's an earthquake,” said Salim Abu Ayadah, the mayor of the town, whose house was among those destroyed. “When I saw it, I couldn't believe my eyes. I couldn't walk.” The destruction was a hard fact, but how it happened was…
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