JERUSALEM — So much here seems so broken right now: the peace process, the moral compass.

The Palestinian reconciliation pact is in tatters. The Israeli police force is having a crisis of public confidence. Houses of suspected Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip have been pulverized into piles of debris by Israeli airstrikes. Red alerts signaling long-range rockets from Gaza have canceled cultural events in Jerusalem and disrupted a wedding in a Tel Aviv suburb.

Also, literally torn asunder is the Jerusalem light rail, certainly a minor casualty compared with the mounting death toll in Gaza, but one laden with symbolic meaning. The rail was once celebrated — at least by Israeli Jews — as an artery of coexistence in an otherwise hostile, divided city. But it turns out that many Palestinians resent it as part of what they see as Israel’s occupation of East Jerusalem — yet another example of how the two sides in this long-running conflict live disparate realities.

Since it opened three years ago, the light rail snaked through Arab and Jewish neighborhoods, forcing residents who hardly interacted otherwise to stand side by side, perhaps overhearing a cellphone conversation.

But after this month’s predawn abduction and killing of a Palestinian 16-year-old in what the authorities charge was a revenge attack for the earlier abduction and murder of three Israeli teenagers, rioters in the Palestinian neighborhood of Shuafat destroyed the light-rail stations there.