It was just the most devastating thing I have ever seen in my life. I lost my home. I lost my car. I had to leave for a little while because I had nowhere to go.
Then in December 2008, while Ms Waugh was briefly out of the country, Israel launched its devastating three-week assault on the strip, which left more than 1,400 Gazan civilians dead, 300 of them children.
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says he'll give bipartisan negotiators in the Senate about two weeks while Congress is away for a break to try to forge a compromise.