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Gaza: Beneath the Bombs
Sharyn Lock
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Description for Gaza: Beneath the Bombs
Paperback. An eyewitness account of events in Gaza that brings home the horror of life in a war-zone, based on the author's candid and dramatic blog. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; 3JMC; HBJF1; HBLX; JPWS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 169 x 14. Weight in Grams: 392.
The 2008 Israeli offensive in Gaza was described by Amnesty international as '22 days of death and destruction'. This eyewitness account brings home the horror of life in Gaza beneath the bombs.
Travelling to the Gaza strip with the Free Gaza Movement, Sharyn Lock believed the greatest danger she faced was the Israeli sea blockade in a fishing boat, but on the 27th December the bombs started falling and did not stop until almost 1500 were dead. With others from the International Solidarity Movement, Sharyn volunteered with Palestinian ambulances, assisting them as they faced overwhelming civilian casualties. ... Read more
The 2008 Israeli offensive in Gaza was described by Amnesty international as '22 days of death and destruction'. This eyewitness account brings home the horror of life in Gaza beneath the bombs.
Travelling to the Gaza strip with the Free Gaza Movement, Sharyn Lock believed the greatest danger she faced was the Israeli sea blockade in a fishing boat, but on the 27th December the bombs started falling and did not stop until almost 1500 were dead. With others from the International Solidarity Movement, Sharyn volunteered with Palestinian ambulances, assisting them as they faced overwhelming civilian casualties. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745330242
SKU
V9780745330242
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99-1
About Sharyn Lock
Sharyn Lock has been volunteering in Palestine since 2002. She is the co-author of Gaza: Beneath the Bombs (Pluto, 2010). She has written for New Internationalist, Red Pepper and the Big Issue North. Sarah Irving is Lecturer in International History at Staffordshire University and a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Electronic Intifada, Guardian and New ... Read more
Reviews for Gaza: Beneath the Bombs
'Moving and understated ... Sharyn Lock manages to humanise the inhuman'
Richard Falk, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestine and Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University 'This is an honest, forthright account full of compassion and insight; it plunges the reader into Gaza as it suffers the Israeli onslaught'
Jeremy Hardy
Richard Falk, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestine and Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University 'This is an honest, forthright account full of compassion and insight; it plunges the reader into Gaza as it suffers the Israeli onslaught'
Jeremy Hardy