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By ScheerPost Staff
This morning i read this deeply moving piece by Ahmed Abu Artema — How Does It Feel When Your City Is Destroyed? — and felt compelled to share it. The article personalizes the horror of forced displacement, recounting the moment an elderly woman kisses the door of her home for the last time, leaving behind not just a building but decades of memories and identity.
Abu writing “This house is very, very dear to me. I lived in it for twenty years and built it stone by stone. I left my home against my will, and my heart is bleeding for it.” and “streets and intersections … once familiar … weren’t there,” the loss isn’t only of walls and concrete, but of “a person’s sense of rootedness, stability, and standing on solid ground.”
This is more than a story about destruction — it’s a testament to what it means to lose a home, a community, a history. I encourage you to read the full piece and reflect on what such erasure means for individuals, families, and entire generations.
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