Deluge: Gaza and Israel, From Crisis to Cataclysm

Edited by Jamie Stern-Weiner (2024)

Israel’s retaliation against Hamas’s Operation Al-Aqsa Deluge on October 7, 2023, turned the besieged enclave into a howling wasteland, with nearly 30,000 people being killed in four months, including more than 12,000 children, and over 60 percent of homes being damaged or destroyed. Israel targeted the wounded and infirm, newborns and near-dead, as Gaza’s healthcare system—hospitals, clinics, ambulances, medical personnel—came under a systematic attack unprecedented in the annals of modern warfare. In this groundbreaking book—the first published about the 2023 Gaza war—leading Palestinian, Israeli, and international authorities put these momentous developments in context and provide an initial taking-stock.