In Gaza, building houses with the sand
It’s not easy to build a house when cement and steel are in short supply. That’s the situation in the Gaza Strip two years after Israel’s military pummeled the seaside territory during an offensive against the militant Islamic group Hamas, which had been firing rockets across the border at Israeli cities. Thousands of Gazan houses were destroyed. Israel now allows a limited amount of construction materials to enter Gaza, but only for building projects implemented by international aid organizations, to keep the materials out of the hands of rocketmakers. It’s left a lot of Palestinian building engineers sitting on the couch at home.
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It leaves Abu Kmeil feeling bittersweet. Cement is preferable, he says, but to him the sand structures symbolize tenacity and creativity in the face of unusual conditions.
ReplyDeleteSo true.