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One year ago, Gaza became a battlefield as Israel began a military offensive to root out Hamas in response to the Oct 7. Hamas-led attacks. The war has left Gaza unrecognizable. Tens of thousands of people have been killed, and almost everyone living there has been displaced<\/a> \u2014 many of them multiple times.<\/p>\n

Nearly 60 percent of buildings have been damaged or destroyed in the besieged enclave, an area about half the size of New York City. Videos and images from before and after the war started in some of the hardest hit areas \u2014 including Khan Younis, Gaza City and Jabaliya \u2014 reveal the magnitude of ruin across the strip.<\/p>\n

Israel says its goal was to eradicate Hamas and destroy the tunnel network it built below ground. But in that attempt, it laid waste to an area that is home to some two million people.<\/p>\n

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In Gaza\u2019s south is the governorate of Khan Younis, stretching from its eponymous medieval city, where the citadel wall stands as its historic anchor, to the lush fields that families have tilled for generations.<\/p>\n

Now, the people of Khan Younis say they feel unmoored from time and place: The square where they played, prayed and gossiped is a ghost town. The farms that once nourished them have been bulldozed and pounded by Israeli artillery.<\/p>\n

Israel says such strikes are necessary to attack Hamas militants and weapons hidden in hospitals, mosques, schools and other civilian areas. International law experts say Israel still has a responsibility to protect civilians even if Hamas exploits them.<\/p>\n

Within the city of Khan Younis, only one citadel wall remains of its Mamluk-era fortress, ground away by centuries and wars past. It is the city\u2019s lodestone.<\/p>\n

That wall has lent its name to everything from the nearby marketplace to a space locals called \u201cCitadel Square.\u201d Here, vendors set up stalls to hawk goods and sugary concoctions and friends gathered around hookah pipes. A young oud player nicknamed Abu Kayan came during Eid holidays to strum Palestinian folk songs.<\/p>\n

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Citadel Square, Khan Younis<\/p>\n

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It was a humble outing even the most impoverished Gazan could enjoy, with a view of the citadel wall and the Grand Mosque on either side.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat made it cool was that all kinds of people met there,\u201d said Abu Kayan, 22, whose real name is Ahmed Abu-Hasaneen. \u201cIt was a place you could feel the spirit of our ancestors. It was a place we could hold on to and preserve.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, the citadel wall looks out over a wasteland of rubble.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think this place could be rebuilt,\u201d said Abu Kayan. \u201cEven if it could, nothing can replace the many friends I met there who have been killed, displaced, or fled abroad.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Citadel Square, Khan Younis<\/p>\n

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Towering over the other side of the square was the 96-year-old Grand Mosque \u2014 the place to go for Friday prayers and staying up late into the night with family during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat mosque was like the city\u2019s address \u2014 the symbol of Khan Younis,\u201d said Belal Barbakh, 25, who once volunteered to clean its carpets and perfume the halls before holidays.<\/p>\n

That address no longer exists \u2014 Israel\u2019s military said it struck the mosque to destroy Hamas infrastructure inside it, information The Times could not independently verify.<\/p>\n

These days, Mr.Barbakh continues that ritual of cleaning and perfuming in the small plastic tent erected as a prayer hall at the foot of the pile of rubble that is all that remains of the Grand Mosque.<\/p>\n

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Beyond the mosque was the citadel\u2019s commercial district, where playful hearts, young and old, sought out Hamada Ice Cream and the balloon-festooned Citadel of Toys.<\/p>\n

Sisters Asan and Elan al-Farra, 16 and 14, remember birthday parties at Hamada, and the excitement they felt when their parents let them stop there after shopping.<\/p>\n

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Ice cream shop, Khan Younis<\/p>\n

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Passing by what is left of Hamada now, Elan said, is like watching the color drained out of her childhood: \u201cIt\u2019s depressing seeing a place that was so bright end up black, battered, and dirty.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ice cream shop, Khan Younis<\/p>\n

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Just a few meters away are the pancaked floors of the building once home to the Barbakh brothers and their families \u2014 and their Citadel of Toys.<\/p>\n

Abdulraouf Barbakh opened the toy store on the ground floor, indulging a childhood obsession with \u201cany and all toys.\u201d<\/p>\n

During Eid celebrations, he welcomed a parade of children who marched in, clutching the holiday money their relatives had given them, eager to buy a long coveted doll, ball or water gun.<\/p>\n

\u201cI loved to see that smile of pure joy on children\u2019s faces, especially for a people like ours that have suffered so much,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Toy store, Khan Younis<\/p>\n

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War has razed the Barbakh building to the ground, and the siblings and cousins who lived there are scattered.<\/p>\n

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Toy store, Khan Younis<\/p>\n

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Outside the remnants of their family building, Mr. Barbakh\u2019s nieces and nephews sometimes linger, looking for signs of toys that survived beneath the ruins.<\/p>\n

Mr. Barbakh cannot imagine going back to being a purveyor of joy to children.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy only wish is to rescue my family from this war,\u201d he said. \u201cI have no plans to buy any more toys.\u201d<\/p>\n

The verdant Khuza\u2019a region of Khan Younis, the breadbasket of southern Gaza, is land Jamal Subuh\u2019s family has plowed for over a century. His children still remember their first time helping their father with the harvest, and the taste of the melons, tomatoes and peas they had picked fresh off the vine.<\/p>\n

Mr. Subuh shared an image of what his cropland looked like before the war.<\/p>\n

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Subuh family land, Khan Younis<\/p>\n

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Gaza\u2019s farmlands represented a rare source of self-sufficiency in an area that has endured a decades-long blockade by Israel and Egypt.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom generation to generation, we handed down a love of farming this land,\u201d said Mr. Subuh, who was ordered off his property by Israeli military officials. \u201cWe eat from it, make money from it and feed the rest of our people from it.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Mr. Subuh, his fields were a chance to leave the next generation better off than his own: Each year, he farmed more lands, to pay for his son\u2019s veterinary school and his daughter\u2019s agricultural engineering degree.<\/p>\n

He estimates that miles upon miles of fields have been bulldozed, his crops crushed. Advancing Israeli troops destroyed hundreds of thousands of dollars\u2019 worth of tractors, water pumps and other equipment. The image provided here is the closest Mr. Subuh has been able to get to his land since the war began.<\/p>\n

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Subuh family land, Khan Younis<\/p>\n

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According to the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization, some 41 percent of the Gaza Strip is cropland. Of that land, it said some 68 percent has been damaged.<\/p>\n

After decades of nourishing Gazans, the Subuh family now relies on humanitarian handouts at a displacement camp in central Gaza.<\/p>\n

Mr. Subuh expects it would take years to extricate all the unexploded ordinances, replow his fields and ensure the earth is clean of toxic substances that may have seeped into the ground.<\/p>\n

Sometimes he regrets not giving up farming sooner, like many Gazan farmers had in previous wars. Yet he mourns the potential end of his farm.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a relationship with that land,\u201d he said. \u201cWe had a history together, and I am heartbroken.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, his daughter, Dina, refuses to give up: \u201cI won\u2019t lose my will to plant and care for this land again.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Gaza City, the strip\u2019s capital, is home to the ancient Old City, as well as Al-Rimal, a once-vibrant, upper-middle-class neighborhood. The war has torn through the area\u2019s cultural and religious landmarks, including the oldest mosque in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Al-Omari Mosque, wrecked by the war, was the heart of the Old City. It had been a place of worship for thousands of years \u2014 evolving as the area\u2019s rulers changed. The ruins of a Roman temple became the site of a Christian Byzantine church in the fifth century, then was repurposed into a mosque in the seventh century.<\/p>\n

For Gazans, the unusual architecture of the mosque set it apart from other Muslim houses of worship.<\/p>\n

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Al-Omari Mosque, Gaza City<\/p>\n

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In December, the mosque was all but destroyed in an airstrike by the Israeli military, which said the site had become a command center for Hamas, information that The Times could not independently verify. The strike toppled much of the mosque\u2019s minaret and ruined most of its stone structure \u2014 including walls with carved Arabic inscriptions.<\/p>\n

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Al-Omari Mosque, Gaza City<\/p>\n

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Ahmed Abu Sultan used to spend the last 10 days of Ramadan worshiping, sleeping and eating in Al-Omari Mosque. For him, the mosque had spiritual echoes of Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, a sacred site for Muslims.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe atmosphere you feel in Jerusalem when you enter the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, you feel the same atmosphere when you enter the Al-Omari Mosque,\u201d Mr. Abu Sultan said.<\/p>\n

Seven months before the war began, he took two of his sons \u2014 then 8 and 9 years old \u2014 to spend a night at Al-Omari during Ramadan, with hopes of beginning an annual tradition. \u201cI wanted to plant this connection in my children,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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To mark another right of passage, generations of Gazans have passed through the Gold Market abutting the mosque.<\/p>\n

Riyad Al-Masri, 29, grew up seeing his brother and other older male relatives shop for jewelry for their brides in the tiny shops under the arched ceilings.<\/p>\n

Mr. Al-Masri and his wife, who have been living apart because of the war, had shopped at the market soon after they became engaged in February 2023. Presenting the bride with gold jewelry is a long-standing tradition in Palestinian wedding culture.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese rituals, we all went through them,\u201d he said. \u201cMy older brother, my father, my grandfathers, we would get engaged and then go to the Gold Market with our fianc\u00e9es and buy what they wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Gold Market, Gaza City<\/p>\n

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What remain are shuttered doors and piles of debris.<\/p>\n

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Al-Rimal was one of the first targets of Israeli airstrikes.<\/p>\n

For decades, the neighborhood had been the center of commerce, trade, academia and entertainment in Gaza. On any given day, Gazans could be seen strolling through the Unknown Soldier Park, a welcome green space in the midst of a busy city.<\/p>\n

Many Gazans who visited the park, along Omar Al-Mukhtar Street, could enjoy slushies in the summer or a warm custard drink in the winter from the nearby ice cream parlor, Qazim.<\/p>\n

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The park was a gathering place for rallies and protests. When past wars ended in a cease-fire deal, people celebrated there.<\/p>\n

Now the park has been razed and bulldozed. The Palestine Bank tower, along with other buildings overlooking the square, has been gutted and damaged.<\/p>\n

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Not far away, the Rashaad Shawa center, which housed the oldest library in the Gaza Strip, has been severely damaged. The first cultural center in Gaza, it once stored the strip\u2019s historical archives, passports and other documents of families who moved to the strip.<\/p>\n

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Among the businesses that made Al-Rimal a destination for Gazans was Shawerma Al-Sheikh, known for its single menu item. It, too, wasn\u2019t spared by the war.<\/p>\n

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Opened in 1986 as a single meat spit, it had inspired restaurants from the north to the south. It was initially called \u201cThe People\u2019s Cafeteria,\u201d but it soon took on a different name after one of its owners, Ihsan Abdo, became known for dressing like \u201ca sheikh\u201d with a long robe and white turban.<\/p>\n

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Back in the 1950s, the neighborhood was mostly an empty, sandy expanse. Al-Rimal, which means sands in Arabic, was named for its terrain.<\/p>\n

As nearby Gaza City areas began to get overcrowded, traders and businessmen started to buy land in Al-Rimal. There they built large homes and multistory buildings, bringing their trades with them into ground-floor shops and storefronts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese landmarks have memories and imprints in the heart of every person who came to Gaza,\u201d said Husam Skeek, a community and tribal leader.<\/p>\n

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The town of Jabaliya in the north, which had a role in one of the most pivotal moments of modern Palestinian history, has now become a byword for Gaza\u2019s destruction.<\/p>\n

As descendants of Palestinians who fled or were driven from their homes in 1948, many in Jabaliya say this war has evoked a sense of transgenerational trauma. Some describe it as reliving the \u201cNakba,\u201d or catastrophe: The loss of land, community, and above all, home.<\/p>\n

Nowhere has that loss felt as potent as in Al-Trans, the heart of Jabaliya\u2019s social life and its history as a place to protest every power that has controlled Gaza \u2014 from Israel to Hamas.<\/p>\n

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Al-Trans is one of the areas that has been decimated by several Israeli incursions into Jabaliya, where the Israeli military repeatedly used 2,000-pound bombs. <\/p>\n

Israel says Jabaliya is a stronghold for Hamas and other militants responsible for the Oct. 7 attacks. After a strike near Al-Trans last October, the Israeli military told The Times that it had destroyed a \u201cmilitary fighting compound\u201d and a tunnel that had been used by Hamas. But locals describe the extent of the destruction as collective punishment.<\/p>\n

Named after the first electricity transmitter erected in the area, Al-Trans intersection stood at the center of Jabaliya \u2014 figuratively and geographically. This is where people went to shop for groceries, get their hair done, meet friends \u2014 and, perhaps most significantly, to protest.<\/p>\n

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\u201cJabaliya, and Al-Trans specifically, was a place of change,\u201d said Fatima Hussein, 37, a journalist from the town. \u201cWhenever we have confronted a regime or oppressive force \u2014 no matter what that force was \u2014 the movement started here.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1987, protests against Israeli occupation that started in Al-Trans set off the First Intifada. Locals rebelled against their own leaders, too: The 2019 \u201cWe Want to Live\u201d protests took off from Al-Trans, voicing growing popular anger over repressive Hamas rule.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur creativity, our awareness, it was born out of suffering,\u201d said Ahmed Jawda, 30, a protest organizer born in Jabaliya. \u201cSuffering makes you insist on living life.\u201d<\/p>\n

That creativity was present in local businesses like the Nahed Al-Assali furniture store. In an enclave struggling with poverty, Al-Assali became hugely successful by offering bargain prices and pay by installment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe secret of our success was taking people into consideration,\u201d said Wissam, Nahed\u2019s brother and business partner. \u201cWe went easy on people, especially with the price.\u201d<\/p>\n

Al-Assali was where newlyweds furnished their new home, and pilgrims purchased prayer rugs. Now it is a pile of charred concrete.<\/p>\n

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Gone, too, is the Rabaa Market and Cafe, where friends lingered for hours to gossip, and activists planned their protests. So is Abu Eskander Cafe, the local nut roastery, and the Syrian Kitchen, a restaurant so popular that locals simply called it \u201cThe Syrian.\u201d<\/p>\n

The loss of the landmarks that mapped Gazans\u2019 most cherished memories makes the notion of rebuilding seem impossible to many.<\/p>\n

The war has no end in sight. Even if it were to stop today, the cost of rebuilding Gaza would be staggering.<\/p>\n

In the first eight months alone, a U.N. preliminary assessment said, the war created 39 million tons of rubble<\/a>, containing unexploded bombs, asbestos, other hazardous substances and even human remains. In May, a World Bank report<\/a> estimated it could take 80 years to rebuild the homes that have been destroyed.<\/p>\n

But for Gazans, neither time nor money can replace all that has been lost.<\/p>\n

If the trauma of previous generations of Palestinians was displacement, Mr. Jawda said, it is now also the feeling of an identity being erased: \u201cDestroying a place destroys a part of who you are.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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