Shell-Shocked: On the Ground Under Israel’s Gaza Assault

Shell-Shocked: On the Ground Under Israel’s Gaza Assault
Publisher: OR Books
Published Date: November 2015
ISBN-13: 978-1608465132

What was it like to live under Israel's assault on the Gaza strip last summer? In these pages, journalist Mohammed Omer, a resident of Gaza who experienced the terror with his wife and three-month-old son, provides a first-hand account of life on-the-ground.

The images he records in this extraordinary chronicle are a literary equivalent of Goya's disasters of war: children's corpses stuffed into vegetable refrigerators, pointlessly because the electricity is off; a family rushing out of their home after a phone call from the Israeli military informs them that the building will be obliterated by an F-16 missile in three minutes; donkeys machine-gunned by Israeli soldiers under instructions to shoot anything that moves; graveyards targeted with shells so that mourners can no longer tell where their relatives are buried; fishing boats ablaze in the harbour.

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