Nasser Faratawi holds up a blackened garland of silicone flowers and a singed Ramadan lantern as he picks through the charred ruins of what was his popular party shop in Tulkarm in the north of the occupied West Bank.
Upstairs, on the three floors of what were his family's luxury apartments, graffiti is scrawled on the walls – including drawings of penises in a living room and his daughter's bedroom.
Expensive furniture has been broken or thrown out of the window, fancy decorations ripped out, every page of a Quran torn, and it stinks of rotten leftover food.
They came and destroyed me, Nasser tells me. It's all seen as destroyable because I live in this city - because I am Palestinian.
On 3 March, the Israeli military arrived at the Faratawi property and gave the family an hour and a half to leave. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) took over the building while they carried out a huge operation nearby, in Tulkarm refugee camp.
They took it as an army base and they lived in it for three-and-a-half months, using it like a hotel, and then they set it on fire, Nasser says, still in disbelief at what happened.
Watching from a distance, he says he saw on 11 June that a fire had been started in his warehouse and shop – where locals used to bring their cars to be decorated for weddings.
It was very hard for me to see my business burning. Everything I had worked for, for over 30 years, Nasser says. His neighborhood remained a closed military zone, and he was only allowed to return at the start of this month.
While Nasser Faratawi is back in his home, he wonders how he will ever renovate it. He estimates that his total losses are up to $700,000. He can complain to Israeli authorities, but past evidence suggests it is highly unlikely he will get any compensation. The Palestinian Authority, which governs parts of the West Bank, is currently unable to fund repairs due to its cash crisis.
Without his shop and with his stock destroyed, Nasser has no income and worries about supporting his son and daughter studying medicine in Egypt. I'm an ordinary person, a businessman, he says. I love peace. I want peace and to live in peace, but they don't want peace.
