81. Where the house once stood is a barren lot oddly sandwiched between two oversized saltboxes that are now year-round homes. 82. His old house still stands in a somber sidestreet filled with garbage and rubble, beside the street of the Prophet and near the mosque. 83. All that is recognisable in this morass, where countless houses once stood crammed close together, are a few metal pots and sheets of corrugated iron. 84. Ekhbaya considers himself lucky as his house still stands. 85. The streets of Nagata are mostly empty, and where houses are still standing, electricians are trying to restore power. 86. There is nothing left to suggest that a house stood here. 87. Today the decaying house stands across the barbed wire from a Jewish settlement and on the front lines of the latest conflict in the divided city. 88. Officials said both houses of parliament stood in silence for a minute before adjourning immediately after resuming the winter session. 89. Other sources in Nazca told AFP that few houses were left standing in the town. |