Nick Schifrin:

Today in Rafah, the damage and destruction is apocalyptic, a gray ghost town of dust and debris, structures flattened into pancakes, buildings obliterated or blown into carcasses.

Gaza City used to be one of the most densely populated spots on the planet, population more than half-a-million, today, stripped of green, a shell of what it used to be. In South Gaza, amidst the displaced, diggers, the first step to clearing the rubble, so families can return home, like the Siam family, who we filmed today arriving for the first time to their home in Rafah turned into a mountain of ruins.

They salvaged what survived, a wooden chair, a single mattress, books amid the debris. They left this home intact eight months ago. Today, 50-year-old Lutfi Siam called the destruction worse than a nightmare.