Gaza Picks Up Pieces Left by Israeli Bulldozers
At the refugee neighborhood, known as Block O, residents wandered through a scene of devastation. A United Nations official said that more than 50 homes had been destroyed and more than 500 people were left homeless.

Climbing over piles of rubble and twisted steel, people collected pieces of wood and scavenged for other items they could salvage or sell. A day after the destruction, little was left of the contents of their homes. A torn schoolbook and notebooks were under the remains of one house, a crushed stroller and smashed sink were strewn a short distance away.

Displaced residents said they had spent their first homeless night sleeping in the houses of neighbors and relatives. Zeinat Abu Jazzar, 23, flanked by her two little sisters, one barefoot and the other in oversize borrowed shoes, managed to keep her composure as she ticked off the meager belongings her family had lost.
Everything was gone, she said, including a supply of medication her sisters had to take every week.

Then her voice broke.

"I can't find shelter since yesterday," she said, tears in her eyes. "Look at us, the clothes we're wearing are from the neighbors, my sister ran out of the house barefoot, we had to borrow shoes."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/12/international/middleeast/12MIDE.html