destruction

“People talk about victory. What victory? All this destruction and death? What was this for?” said Ali, a 49-year-old merchant in Tyre, who gave only his first name to avoid reprisals.

They brought her refuge, a place, a portal she could step through to remember that the destruction around her was once something else.

If we turn Gaza into an American Riviera, it’s all for the better, Trump argues, even if it comes at the cost of thousands of Palestinian lives and the utter destruction of Palestinian culture.

Gaza has suffered vast destruction with a huge humanitarian impact.

The highfalutin parallel is to “Candide,” the classic 18th century novel about a naif who endures the horrors of civilization: chaos, selfishness, disease and destruction.