Product Description
Had the pacifist International Solidarity Movement not been in Gaza at the time, the world would have been deprived of a detailed account from the inside, having instead to rely on the generalised accounts of news agencies reporting from outside the Strip. This brief yet precious volume stands alone, along with a precious few others, as a direct eye-witness account of Gaza’s last bloodbath. The English edition features a new authoritative introduction by the renowned Israeli academic Ilan Pappe and further dispatches of life in Gaza eight months after Operation Cast Lead.
About the Author
Vittorio Arrigoni, an Italian national, has worked as a human rights activist for over a decade. He has been involved in volunteer work all over the world, from Eastern Europe to Africa, all the way to Palestine and Gaza, where he has lived for a year, from 2008 to September 2009. As a freelance journalist with the Italian daily Il Manifesto, Arrigoni describes the days of “Operation: Cast Lead”, not simply as a columnist, but also as someone intimately involved with the war as a volunteer, working with the Palestinian Red Crescent ambulances as a “human shield”.
( L’edizione e la traduzione di Gaza Restiamo Umani in inglese sono a cura di Daniela Filippin)