To find the place where he used to live, Noor Abed needed GPS.
As he pedaled north on his bicycle along the coastal highway from the town in central Gaza where he had taken refuge, not even the ruins of familiar buildings could guide him. What was once his neighborhood in Gaza City is now a row of sand dunes.
“There are no conditions for life here,” Abed, 35, told CNN. “No water, no electricity, no schools, and almost no phone coverage.”
The former software engineer is living in a tent he set up in the courtyard of Al-Azhar University, whose ruined campus has become a refugee center. Not all his family returned with him, worried that the nascent ceasefire may not hold.
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