‘Everyone is saying it should not be business as usual’
As they emerge from hiding, people living in Gaza City have had to adapt their memories. So deformed is this small place on the coast that a mental map of its roads and landmarks from two weeks ago has become largely useless. Shortcuts no longer work, as craters dot back streets and rubble blocks roads. High-rise landmarks no longer exist.
Eleven days of bombardment have buckled the city. Air attacks shook the ground so violently that some buildings appear to have been pulled into the earth rather than hit from above. On one street, the bent walls of kindergarten descend
