rubble

Parts of the hotel had been reduced to rubble as government forces and gunmen exchanged fire, shopkeeper Ali Suleiman, who witnessed the attack, told the Reuters news agency.

The ivy on the wall behind the pool was brittle and charred, rubble littered the deck, and the water shone like a black mirror.

In the first phase, which would last six months and cost $3bn, millions of tonnes of rubble and any unexploded ordnance would be cleared.

Will a "Dubai on the Mediterranean" rise one day from the rubble of Gaza instead of the US's "Riviera of the Middle East"?

A burnt horseshoe found in the rubble is more promising as a probative clue.