Standing on the cement scrap heap of his house, Hamada el-Samouni overlooked, with an air of despair, the whole area in Gaza City's southeastern neighborhood of Zitton, where the fiercest Israeli bombardment took place.

The three-story apartment building owned by the Samouni family had been shredded by Israeli tank shells during ground incursion to the Gaza Strip.

"Nine members of my family were killed and the rest of us now live in a tent over there," Hamad a said, pointing to a precarious temporary canvas shelter which is 10 meters away.

"I support the resistance, all the Palestinians are in one hand and we have to restore our unity," he said with a numb face.

Gaza militants under the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) kept haunting southern Israeli communities with barrage of rockets and mortar shells for years.

With the end of a shaky six-month ceasefire deal, renewed offensives from Gaza finally incurred the Jewish state's deadly retaliation to restore secure in its southern territory.

The three-week devastating conflict between Israel and Gaza militants has left over 1,400 Palestinian people dead, 5,500 others injured and ten thousands of people homeless. The Gazans have mixed feelings toward the militants' resistance which bestowed them nothing but misery.

"As you can see, the Israelis destroyed everything completely, no house, no furniture, no clothes, we have nothing now," said Hassan Siam, who is digging through rubbles trying to collect his belongings.

"We have no relation with the resistance. I am only a villager and I don't care about resistance. All we care about is to provide a normal life to our children so they can live in dignity," Hassan said.

According to the survey conducted by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the war damage so far amounts to about US$1.9 billion. Although Saudi Arabia has pledged a one-billion-dollar assistance for reconstruction, many Gazans are skeptical if the money will actually arrive as Israel is expected to keep tight control over the capital flow to make sure the aid money will not strengthen Hamas.

Even those who have money to rebuild their own houses cannot get basis materials, as the coastal strip has been under strict Israeli blockade since Hamas took control of the enclave in 2007.

"I don't even think about rebuilding after saving eight years for my new house which was destroyed overnight. If the resistance works, how could we still live in desperation?" Hassan questioned.

Despites the devastation, Gaza militants has called their resistance a "victory" and vowed to fight again.

"The Israelis came to our land to kill us and create chaos among the Palestinian population," said a field officer with Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, requesting to stay unnamed. "We are always ready to fight against Israel, and I will fight to the end of my life."