As the Israeli military continues to relentlessly pound the Gaza Strip, Shahban Aslim, who had built his dream book store in Gaza by starving himself, laments as the building is razed to the ground by an Israeli airstrike.
“I stopped eating so that I could afford to open the shop.”
The owner of Gaza’s largest bookstore, Shaban Aslim, stands in front of the rubble of his bookstore which was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike. pic.twitter.com/iwtQ9FHFoN
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The bookstore was the largest in Gaza. As the tattered books lie in the rubble, Aslim tells the bookstore was not merely a means of livelihood, but “a dream.”