Gaza: The Story of a Genocide is an urgent and powerful collection of personal testimony, poetry, photography, art, and frontline reportage. Together, these works bear witness to the vast and ongoing destruction inflicted on the Palestinian people--their lives, their land, and their future.
Ahmed Alnaouq recounts the devastating loss of twenty-one family members. Noor Alyacoubi offers a searing reflection on starvation. Mariam Barghouti examines the brutality of Israeli settler violence in the West Bank, while Eman Bashir describes the phenomenon of a "wounded child, no surviving family." These voices, among many others, illuminate the enduring psychological, physical, and generational toll of state violence.
With contributions from recipients of the Palestine Book Award, Arab American Book Award, Pulitzer Prize, Emmy Award, National Book Award, and Gandhi Peace Award, this collection also honors the late poet Hiba Abu Nada--killed in an Israeli airstrike on her home in Khan Younis, Gaza, on October 20, 2023.
Author: Fatima Bhutto
Publisher: Verso
Published: 10/07/2025
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
ISBN: 9781836742241
About the Author
Fatima Bhutto's books include the novels The Runaways and The Shadow of The Crescent Moon, longlisted for the Women's Prize and winner of the 2014 Prix de la Romanciere. Her non-fiction books include Songs of Blood and Sword and New Kings of the World. She is the co-founder, with Sonia Faleiro and Julia Churchill, of Books for Gaza.
Sonia Faleiro is the author of
The Good Girls, nominated for the RSL Ondaatje Prize, the ALCS Gold Dagger for Nonfiction, and the Premio Feltrinelli, and
Beautiful Thing, shortlisted for the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage. She is the founder of the literary mentorship program South Asia Speaks and co-founder of Books for Gaza. Based in London, she is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow.