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A gripping first-person account of how one Israeli grandfather helped rescue two generations of his family on October 7, 2023a saga that reveals the deep tensions and systemic failures behind Hamass attacks that day.
On the morning of October 7, Amir Tibon and his wife were awakened by mortar rounds exploding near their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, a progressive Israeli community less than a mile from Gaza City. Soon, they were holding their two young daughters in the familys reinforced safe room, urging them not to cry as gunfire echoed just outside the door. With his cell phone battery running low, Amir texted his father: The girls are behaving really well, but Im worried theyll lose patience soon and Hamas will hear us.
Some 45 miles north, Amirs parents had just cut short an early morning swim along the shores of Tel Aviv. Now, they jumped in their Jeep and sped toward Nahal Oz, armed only with a pistol but intent on saving their family at all costs.
In The Gates of Gaza, Amir Tibon tells this harrowing story in full for the first time. He describes his familys ordealand the bravery that ultimately led to their rescuealongside the histories of the place they call home and the systems of power that have kept them and their neighbors in Gaza in harms way for decades.
Woven throughout is Tibons own expertise as a longtime international correspondent, as well as more than thirty original interviews: with residents of his kibbutz, with the Israeli soldiers who helped to wrest it from the hands of Hamas, and with experts on Gaza, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the failed peace process. More than one familys odyssey, The Gates of Gaza is the intimate story of a tight-knit community and the broader saga of war, occupation, and hostility between two national movementsa conflict that has not yet extinguished the enduring hope for peace.
Author: Amir Tibon
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 09/24/2024
Pages: 352
ISBN: 9780316580960
Language: English
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