That's the thing about war: it's never enough to disable the buildings, to blow holes into their middles; instead, they're hit over and over again, as if to pound them to dust, to disintegrate them, to remove them from the earth, to deny that families ever lived in them. But people did live there. And they needed to return, even though there was nothing left to return to except forbidding piles of broken concrete and cable wires sticking out of the heaps like markers of malevolence. Izzeldin Abuelaish
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War can be a terrible thing. It can destroy lives, and lives of those that we love. It seems as if war is never enough to destroy the building; it has to be blown up over and over again as if to pound it to dust. To remove it from the earth and deny that families ever lived there.  It is important to remember that people did live there, and they needed to return even though there was nothing left to return to except forbidding piles of broken concrete and cable wires sticking out of the heaps like markers of malevolence.

Source: I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctors Journey On The Road To Peace And Human Dignity

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