‘I expect to find a ghost city’: Gaza residents on the long, arduous journey back home

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"As Abdel Fattah al-Kurdi made the long journey back to Gaza City, he found himself getting lost. Though he left the city just a few weeks ago, he could no longer recognise its streets. The buildings he had grown up in between had collapsed, their contents carpeting the roads in a mixture of torn furniture and broken concrete.

Al-Kurdi could only recognise the Netzarim checkpoint marking his entry into north Gaza by the bodies lying at its feet – those who had tried to return home too early, their faces obscured by dust after being cut down by Israeli fire."

read report by Seham Tantesh in Gaza and William Christou in Jerusalem

I expect to find a ghost city’: Gaza residents on the long, arduous journey back home | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian