Gaza: A Meditation on Spirit and Survival

 

"The images that have emerged from Gaza reveal the anatomy of a desolate landscape that defies human comprehension. Nothing can prepare the conscience for the sheer suffocating scale of a seemingly endless treeless terrain overwhelmed with millions of tons of concrete and rebar.

There is a distinct agonizing geometry to the destruction of buildings folded upon themselves.  The angles, lines and shapes of neighborhoods have been completely warped, creating a jarring unnatural landscape of ruins, where once familiar streets, blocks and landmarks are now unrecognizable. The steel and mortar that once housed generations of families, communal memories, bustling markets, and schools full of children eager to learn, have been leveled into a desolate sea of gray."

 read article by REZA BEHNAM

Gaza: A Meditation on Spirit and Survival  - CounterPunch.org