It took Walid Ribhi a long time to find the place where his parents used to live. Everything around it had been obliterated.

Walid needed help from neighbors sitting in the rubble of their former homes to locate what he was looking for.

The sight was shocking. There was no trace of his parent’s two-story building.

All the other houses in the area were gone, too.

“It was as if a hurricane hit the area and swallowed up all the buildings,” Walid said. ….more