A harrowing and indispensable first-hand account of the experience of the first 85 days of the Israeli invasion of Gaza from a prominent Palestinian writer. Early in the morning of 7 Oct 2023, Atef Abu Saif went swimming. It was a beautiful morning: sunny with a cool breeze. The Palestinian Authority's Minister for Culture was on a combined work and pleasure trip to Gaza, visiting his extended family with his 15-year-old son, Yasser, and participating in National Heritage Day. Then the bombing started! Don't Look Left ...
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A harrowing and indispensable first-hand account of the experience of the first 85 days of the Israeli invasion of Gaza from a prominent Palestinian writer. Early in the morning of 7 Oct 2023, Atef Abu Saif went swimming. It was a beautiful morning: sunny with a cool breeze. The Palestinian Authority's Minister for Culture was on a combined work and pleasure trip to Gaza, visiting his extended family with his 15-year-old son, Yasser, and participating in National Heritage Day. Then the bombing started! Don't Look Left takes us into the day-to-day experiences of Gazan civilians trying to survive Israel's war against Hamas. Its detail and extended narrative show us what brief reports and video clips cannot. In a war that has taken an extraordinarily high toll on civilians, it is a crucial document - a day-to-day testimony and a deeply moving depiction of a people's fight to survive and maintain their humanity amid the chaos and trauma of mass destruction. It is also, remarkably, a powerful literary experience. Atef Abu Saif was born in Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza in 1973, and, as he writes, his first war broke out when he was two months old. He writes as only someone who knows Gaza deeply can. Only someone who knows war can, picking out the details of ordinary life and survival amidst the possibility of death coming at any moment: washing the only shirt he has and waiting naked for three hours for it to dry, noticing a cat as terrified as the people on the street around it, hiding under a bistro table; visiting his sister-in-law's daughter in the hospital, who tells him in her dream she has no legs, and asks him if it is true. It is: she lost her legs and a hand when a bomb hit her home. Trying to figure out the best place to sleep each night and when and where to flee as the destruction intensifies. This is not like past wars with Israel; Abu Saif soon realises - thinking of the Nakba and images of bombed cities from World War II.
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