Gaza
Beneath the Bombs
Sarah Irving author Sharyn Lock author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Pluto Press
Published:12th Jan '10
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
The 2008 Israeli offensive in Gaza was described by Amnesty international as '22 days of death and destruction'. This eyewitness account brings home the horror of life in Gaza beneath the bombs.
Travelling to the Gaza strip with the Free Gaza Movement, Sharyn Lock believed the greatest danger she faced was the Israeli sea blockade in a fishing boat, but on the 27th December the bombs started falling and did not stop until almost 1500 were dead. With others from the International Solidarity Movement, Sharyn volunteered with Palestinian ambulances, assisting them as they faced overwhelming civilian casualties. Her candid and dramatic writing from Gaza gave the world an insight into the conflict that the mainstream media - unable to enter Gaza - couldn't provide.
'Moving and understated ... Sharyn Lock manages to humanise the inhuman' -- Richard Falk, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestine and Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University
'This is an honest, forthright account full of compassion and insight; it plunges the reader into Gaza as it suffers the Israeli onslaught' -- Jeremy Hardy
ISBN: 9780745330259
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 509g
240 pages