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 Israelimilitary 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, today they are destined for urgently-needed tents as temperatures at night fall. Heavy rainstorms........

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