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stripes - He watched two missiles destroy his Gaza bookshop. 'It was like I had my child in there'

Days after the armed confrontation between Israel and Hamas ended in an uneasy truce, the 2 million people sardined into this impoverished coastal enclave are trying to map out a Gaza transformed yet again by war. Among the litany of loss at least 248 people dead, tens of thousands more displaced, over 1,000 housing and commercial units damaged is the destruction of the Samir Mansour Bookstore, a place that for many here was a cultural mecca. ....

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Bookshop, Gaza cultural icon, destroyed in Israel-Hamas war

Samir Mansour's bookstore was a cultural magnet for residents of the Gaza Strip until an Israeli airstrike leveled it. Now he has to start over. ....

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He watched two missiles destroy his bookshop. 'My soul came out of me'

He watched two missiles destroy his bookshop. My soul came out of me
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Police officers inspect the ruins of Samir Mansour s bookstore and other buildings in Gaza City that were destroyed by Israeli bombardment. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
The call sealing Samir Mansour’s bookstore for destruction came in the early morning.
For days, Gaza had been subject to Israeli bombardment, a relentless aerial assault that turned towers, boulevards and commercial districts in an instant into rubble-filled craters. Now, according to the Israeli soldier s voice coming through Mansour s cellphone in accented Arabic, it was the turn of the six-story Kuheil building, which had housed Mansour’s bookshop and publishing house since 2008. He had 10 minutes to get out. ....

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