Outside, bodies wrapped in white cloth lined the sidewalk waiting to be identified or collected by loved ones. Many of the limestone villas and high-rise buildings surrounding the hospital in its affluent Gaza City neighborhood of Al Rimal have been reduced to rubble in the bombing. The Israel...
Odo eagerly pressed Alfieri to remain in Pianura, offering to put one of the ducal villas at his disposal, and suggesting that the Virginia should be performed before the court on the Duchess's birthday. "It is true," he said, "that we can offer you but an indifferent company of actor...