Thursday, October 11, 2007
"“All that was left of my room was the four walls,” said Maysa al-Sharaf, 23, who found piles of rubble filling each room of her home. “I was hoping to find something — at least my favorite pair of black trousers. But there was nothing.” She was so devastated that she returned to her temporary lodgings in another camp, her cellphone full of fuzzy images of destruction she had snapped despite army warnings that photography was prohibited. “This is my friend’s living room,” she said, showing a photograph of upturned, broken furniture and walls punctured by shells. “She hasn’t seen it yet.”"