As the sun sets on the Deir el Balah neighbourhood in the southern tip of the Gaza Strip, Abu Mustafa Naji and his wife move slowly through the silence around them. Neither speaks as they set a small wooden table down on a slab of concrete — possibly a piece from what was once a wall of the home they shared in this exact spot.
Mustafa, 55, said he built the home with his own hands, “stone by stone.” It was bombed on Oct. 10, only three days into the Israel-Hamas war.
“As you can see the destruction … and what happened in
