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The square adjacent to the Palmyra Hotel was being renovated when the Israeli warplanes struck on July 13. The charcoal-gray paving stones are scattered where they were left when the laborers stopped work, like islands in an estuary. The ruins of ancient Heliopolis form a vista before the hotel entrance.

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