Trump thought Gulf monarchs would rebuild Gaza. Then he told them his plan

The American writer Kurt Vonnegut was a prisoner in Dresden during the Second World War, and after the devastating Allied bombing of that city, was forced to go “mining” for corpses. In his novel Slaughterhouse Fiv e, he described the terrible stench as being like “mustard gas and roses”.

A similar “ghoulish mission” – as Vonnegut put it – faces those charged with rebuilding Gaza … first, they must excavate the decomposing bodies entombed beneath the rubble. There are between 10,000 and 14,000 of them, according to published estimates, though no one knows the true number.

That grim task may be the easy part. After that, comes the job of clearing away the rubble. I covered an earlier Gaza war , in 2008-2009. I say “covered” but – just like today – Israel stopped foreign journalists