Walid Abu Libdeh, a 61-year-old engineer, felt like he was in a terrible movie when he and his little daughter returned to Rafah. He navigated the streets littered with debris, attempting to locate the location of his former home.
The houses are where? Where are the trees? Where are the animals? Where are our loved ones? He addressed the ground crew of NBC News in the southern city of Gaza on Wednesday.
According to Libdeh, what has transpired in Rafah is reminiscent of Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
The United Nations estimates that six months ago, over a million Palestinians who had been forcibly displaced from the fighting in the Gaza Strip lived at Rafah, on the border between Gaza and Egypt. As Palestinians search through debris and rubble to see what remains of their city, the image now appears very different.