Atef Abu Saif on life amid the bombing of #Gaza: Israel’s missiles are erasing lives in an instant.
▻http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/07/atef_abu_saif_on_life_amid_the_bombing_of_gaza_israel_s_missiles_are_erasing.
Monday night was a terrible chapter in the history of Gaza—especially for the eastern part of Beit Hanoun. Tanks moved in from the border toward the residential areas, destroying everything in their paths, erasing every building, every school, every orchard. You do not know whether the next shell will fall on your head. When you will be reduced to another number in the news. You think about what it means to disappear from the world, to evaporate like a drop of water, leaving no sign of your existence, and the thought drives you mad.