A Gaza City neighbourhood is left in ruins after Israeli troops withdraw


Wrecked lives: Palestinians returning to the destroyed Shijaiyah neighbourhood in Gaza City. — AP

AFTER two weeks of intense battles between Hamas militants and Israeli troops in the Gaza City neighbourhood of Shijaiyah, residents and rescue workers combed through the wreckage, a landscape of flattened buildings strewn with dozens of bodies.

Residents who returned described a neighbourhood that was now uninhabitable.

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