After Israel's bombs caused 'almost total devastation,' Rafah faces a daunting rebuilding process
Last year, Rafah was home to over a million Palestinians displaced from the Israel-Hamas war. Now, Palestinians in Gaza wade through rubble to see what remains.
When Walid Abu Libdeh returned to Rafah with his young daughter, the 61-year-old engineer felt as though he were “in a horrible film” as he moved through the rubble-strewn streets, trying to figure out where his home once stood.
“Where are the houses? Where are the trees? Where are the animals? Where are the people we love?” he told NBC News’ ground crew in the southern Gaza city on Wednesday.
What has happened in Rafah feels like “Hiroshima or Nagasaki,” Libdeh added.
Six months ago, Rafah, on the Gaza-Egypt border, was home to well more than a million Palestinians who had been forcibly displaced from the war in the Gaza Strip, according to United Nations estimates. Now, the picture looks drastically different as Palestinians wade through rubble and debris to see what is left standing in their city.
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