Taking Stock of an Unrecognizable Gaza

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28 ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR [Taking Stock of an Unrecognizable Gaza]( What Israel’s bombing has wrought. [Palestinians gather at the site of Israeli strikes on houses, in Maghazi]( [Palestinians gather at the site of Israeli strikes on houses, in Maghazi]( Photo: Mohammed Fayq Abu Mostafa/Reuters Those of us lucky enough to have had our elders with us grew up listening to their recollections of Palestine. But in all of their stories, a rupture occurs at roughly the same point in time. My grandfather told me he never knew whether he passed his high-school exams because his school suddenly ceased to exist. My grandmother was forced to leave her childhood home in the [city of Tiberias]( and could never go back because it was seized by the Israeli state and later occupied by Israeli families. Our elders were not just [driven out of their homes by Zionist paramilitaries]( in 1948, but more than 500 villages were destroyed, their [water wells]( and crops ruined, their markets, their schools, their hospitals bombed. These were their stories of the Nakba, or “the Catastrophe” in Arabic, a term Palestinians use to mark the events of 1948. For 750,000 Palestinians, that rupture was permanent; they were [never allowed to return](. [Continue reading »]( Want more on city life, real estate, and design? [Subscribe now]( to save over 40% on unlimited access to Curbed and everything New York. [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [That $8,000 Two-Bedroom Comes With a Week of Summer Camp A newish twist in the Brooklyn amenity wars.]( By Kim Velsey [Harry Macklowe Is Selling His Post-Divorce East Hampton Estate The $38 million home on Georgica Pond features ocean vistas (and reported views of his ex-wife).]( By Kim Velsey [Fashion Editor Gabriella Karefa-Johnson’s House in Bed-Stuy “I became obsessed with Live Auctioneers. I didn’t have the time, or the bandwidth, or the driver’s license, for going to estate sales.”]( By Wendy Goodman [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed]( [Sign up to get The Listings Edit](, a weekly digest of the most worth-it apartments in New York. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2024, All rights reserved