Most of the activities of potential returnees more or less boil down to visits to their demolished, burned down homes and desecrated graveyards.

Hamas s determination to assert its authority can be gauged by the desecrated corpses of Fatah fighters, many of them with bullets fired at their heads, a practice dubbed confirmation of death.

In the town of Gojra in Punjab province in 2009, Islamists burned 77 houses and killed eight Christians after rumors that a copy of the Islamic holy book the Qur an had been desecrated (see GV article).

Committing acts of vandalism in the territories they had occupied, they plundered and burned nearly 500 historical and over 100 archaeological monuments, 22 museums and 4 art galleries and 9 palaces of historical importance, and desecrated 44 temples and 9 mosques.