The Gates of Gaza
A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel’s Borderlands
By Amir Tibon (Little, Brown and Company, October 2024)
Genre: Non-Fiction
Via: Library
Pages: 290 + extensive Notes and an Index
It’s complicated. Intense. Tragic. Indeed, the depth and breadth of the decades-long conflict in the Middle East are difficult – and maybe impossible – to fully grasp unless you live there. That’s one of two main messages that come through loud and clear in this first-hand account of the October 7 massacre by journalist Amir Tibon.
Twelve chapters plus an Epilogue bring us into the heart of the October 7 and the history of the region. The author’s first-person narrative focuses on how the author, along with his wife Miri and their two young daughters, hid in the family’s safe room inside their home during Hamas’s murderous rampage across southern Israel. It’s hair-raising. To put it mildly.
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