B'Tselem בצלם Shuruq's home is one of 100,000 houses in Gaza that were ruined or damaged in Operation Protective Edge. The families who lived in them, the elderly, the women and children, now live in rough, crowded conditions, in tents, in the col

 ‎B'Tselem בצלם‎.

B'Tselem בצלם

Shuruq's home is one of 100,000 houses in Gaza that were ruined or damaged in Operation Protective Edge. The families who lived in them, the elderly, the women and children, now live in rough, crowded conditions, in tents, in the cold. 
Shuruq related: "For the first seven years of our married life, we lived with my husband’s parents. We kept dreaming of building a home of our house so things would be calmer and easier for us. In 2012, I borrowed some money from my family. We used that money along with what we had saved from my husband’s job and our income from selling olives and lemons from trees on a plot of land we own to build a house on that plot... I felt I couldn’t go and look at what’s left of the house. I didn’t think I could take it. I couldn’t bear to see how years of work, my husband’s and mine, went down the drain in a single moment, through no fault of our own. " Read full testimony: http://bit.ly/ShuruqGaza

Shuruq's testimony is part of a series of voices from Gaza that we will continue to post in the coming weeks.
The previous video in the series: http://on.fb.me/13fZenP, http://bit.ly/al-Qara
Shadi's testimony: http://on.fb.me/1uWGErx
Mu'taz's testimony: http://bit.ly/GazaToday3