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Gaza is being wiped off the map, stone by stone. "Words are losing their meaning and can no longer convey what is happening," one resident writes
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"I sent my family south," a friend texted to me yesterday morning, "but I stayed in Gaza City to say goodbye to its streets and to mourn it. I'm sitting alone in my father's house, thinking about the city's few landmarks that are still standing. I don't know what I'll do tomorrow. Will my longing for my family prevail, and I'll head south too? Or will I have the courage to stay until my blood, bones and flesh mix with the dust and ash of Gaza as it is erased from the world, stone by stone?"
