An iconic Gaza bookshop destroyed in an Israeli airstrike last year reopened on Thursday, lifting the spirits of its ecstatic owner and a large crowd of well-wishers celebrating the moment. The five-storey building that housed Samir Mansour’s bookshop on its ground floor was reduced to rubble during Israel’s11-day aerial assault on the besieged Gaza Strip in May last year. The 100,000 books at the shop became piles of torn papers mired in ash and dust. “I was devastated when the shop was destroyed and our friends and loved ones have boosted my morale. But today I was born again, today is a new…