Nothing prepares you for the scene of destruction in Gaza. Even when you read before hand that 3500 homes were destroyed and 28,000 damaged. Even when you know all the statistics. 800 industries damaged. 10 schools destroyed, 204 damaged. 14 mosques destroyed, 38 damaged. The list goes on and on. But it makes you word blind.431 children and 114 women killed. 1400 dead bodies in total. And 5303, including 1606 children and 828 women injured. Intellectually it may be possible to absorb some of this but it’s only when you are there that the impact of it all hits you.
I had to fight back tears a few time. Particularly at the first stop on our schedule. A woman was sitting before an open fire in what was once her house. She was cooking. Girders and huge slabs of concrete formed a cave like structure above and around her. Her husband was dead. She was living on handouts. She used to live in a little village called Izbet Abd Rabo. Now she lives in a cave.
La descrizione è di Gerry Adams, sul suo blog.
(la foto ritrae sfollati dell’Operazione Piombo Fuso in una scuola dell’Unrwa)