In Homes and on Streets, A War That Feels Deadlier.

The war here comes from the sky: fast, sharp and coldly lethal. And even when it is not crushing a building or collapsing a tunnel, its sound is always near in the nasal whine of drones and the earsplitting roar of fighter jets. Here in Gaza's south on Saturday, the 22nd day of the war, conversations were punctuated by the whistles and occasional cracks of Israeli ordnance hitting its targets -- a maze of underground tunnels that served as smuggling routes for Hamas. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]