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.