By Haseeb Alwazeer

GAZA, Dec 11 (Reuters) – As winter bites in Gaza, displaced Palestinians set out every day to homes destroyed by Israel. There they rip out iron rods from the walls and use them to prop up their flimsy tents or sell to scratch out a living in an enclave that will take years ‍to recover from war.

The rods have become a hot item in Gaza, where they are twisted up in the wreckage left by an Israeli military campaign that spared few homes. Some residents spend days pounding away at thick cement to extract them, others do the back-breaking work for a week or more.

With only rudimentary tools such as shovels, pickaxes and hammers, work proceeds at a snail’s pace.

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Once the bars helped hold up cement walls in family homes, t

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