Nesreen Hamad, a mother of three, was anxiously waiting for news from her husband, who had made the arduous journey to Gaza City's Sheikh Radwan neighborhood. She had stayed behind in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, where her family had been displaced. "My husband went to our home in Sheikh Radwan today," Hamad told DW by phone on Sunday. "We knew it had been bombed, but seeing it with our own eyes, that made it even more painful." Their house had been destroyed, and much of the neighborhood