The Killing of Gaza

Gideon Levy is one of the most respected critics of Israel's apartheid policies against the Palestinian people. He is the outspoken award-winning journalist who has been writing on the conflict for decades. In The Killing of Gaza, he brings together his on-the-ground perspectives of the events leading up to the 7th October and the ensuing devastation of Gaza. His clear-eyed analysis is a vital aperture into current events but he also brings essential historical and political context to the moment. He is unafraid to speak truth to power, and his work is an urgent rebuttal to the propaganda that is distributed through the mainstream liberal press, throughout the world. Levy's words should be read by anyone who wants to get the heart of this most brutal conflict and see for themselves that silence is no longer possible in the face of such atrocity.

Gideon Levy

Introduction: Catastrophe Report PART I 2014 1. What Were We Thinking? July 10 2. Death to Arabs July 13 3. What Does Hamas Want? July 20 4. Go to Gaza, See for Yourself August 10 5. War, What War? September 18 2015 6. A Futile Report June 25 7. No Picnic, No Tragedy July 2 2016 8. It’s Never Israel’s Fault: Two Gazan Children Are Dead and Their Story Goes Untold March 17 9. If Gazans Don’t Fire, No One Listens June 1 10. Broken Families in Limbo July 8 2017 11. The Wall of Insanity August 13 12. Sacred Sovereignty November 2 2018 13. Strangling Gaza April 5 14. Bleeding in the Sand April 24 15. In the Field of Philistia May 18 16. We Should Be Saluting the Gaza Strip July 15 2019 17. "It Would Be More Convenient If We’d Died" June 7 18. "My Future Turned Black" July 12 19. The Trial of "Inmate X" October 18 2020 20. Happy New Year, Gaza 2 January 21. Nobody Opposes the War May 16 2021 22. One Image, 2 Million People October 10 23. Congratulations: The Gaza Ghetto Now Has a Fence Around It December 9 2022 24. The Only Way March 31 25. The War of Change and Healing August 7 26. When Roger Waters Cried August 11 27. An Election for Whites Only October 30 2023 28. The People of Israel Will Remember Its Children April 23 29. I Was Wrong About Netanyahu May 11 30. Do You Really Want to Go On Living Like This? May 14 PART II OCTOBER 31. Israel Can’t Imprison Two Million Gazans Without Paying a Cruel Price October 9 32. The Reckoning Must Be with Hamas, Not with All Gazans October 12 33. A Bloodcurdling Visit to Israel’s South After the Hamas Attack Evokes ISIS and Ukraine October 14 34. On Kibbutz Be’eri, Time Stood Still: Traces of the Life Before the Massacre October 19 35. It Is Forbidden to Even Empathize with Innocent Gazans October 26 36. Northern Inexposure: Former "Peace" on Lebanon Border Replaced by Deathly Silence October 29 NOVEMBER 37. These Are the Children Extracted After the Bombardment of Gaza’s Jabalya Refugee Camp November 2 38. If We Can’t See the Eyes of Gaza’s Dead Children, Can We See Children at All? November 5 39. If Israel Resists Examining Its Own Failures, Another War Awaits Us November 9 40. A Population Transfer Under the Cover of War: A Visit to the Forsaken Land of Settler Militias November 18 41. Giora Eiland’s Monstrous Gaza Proposal Is Evil in Plain Sight November 23 42. Forty-Two Palestinians Killed in Seven Weeks: A Visit to a West Bank City That Has Become a Firing Zone November 25 43. Is It Permissible to Rejoice in the Joy of Palestinians Released from Israeli Prisons? November 26 DECEMBER 44. While War Rages in Gaza, Israeli Troops and Settlers Grow Trigger-Happy in Ramallah December 2 45. Israel Has Turned Its Back on the Hostages in Favor of Destroying Gaza December 2 46. The Israeli Army’s Incursions Are More Frequent and Violent. The Jenin Refugee Camp Is Now Little Gaza December 8 47. By Trying to Humiliate Gaza to Its Core, Israel Is the One Being Humiliated December 10 48. If Settler Violence Wasn’t Enough, Israel Is Now Depriving Jordan Valley Palestinians of Water December 16 49. Would Israel Be Any Different without Netanyahu? December 21 50. A Disabled Palestinian Was Carrying a Bag of Lollipops When He Was Shot by Israeli Troops December 23 51. When Israel Abuses the Hostages That It Holds December 23 52. There’s No Way to "Explain" the Degree of Death and Destruction in Gaza December 28 53. The Legitimization of Evil Will Remain with Israelis Long After the War in Gaza Ends December 31 2024 JANUARY 54. No Israeli Soldiers Have Stood Up and Refused to Participate in This Evil War January 3 55. Someone in Israel’s Army Decided to Bring This Quiet West Bank Area into the Circle of Violence January 5 56. Palestinians in Gaza Are Being Held Hostage by Israel and Hamas January 11 57. If It Isn’t a Genocide in Gaza, Then What Is It? January 14 58. The Gaza I Loved Will Never Be the Same January 24 59. Israel’s Mainstream Brought Us to The Hague, Not Its Lunatic Fringes January 28 FEBRUARY 60. Israel’s Dignity Will Be Damaged, Hamas Will Be Crowned Winner, but the War Will End February 7 61. Israeli Border Police Killed a 4-Year-Old Palestinian Girl, Then Took 10 Days to Return Her Body February 10 62. An Israeli Incursion into Gaza’s Rafah Will Be an Unprecedented Humanitarian Catastrophe February 11 63. With the "Perfect" Hostage Rescue Operation, Israel’s Dehumanization of Palestinians in Gaza Reached a New Low February 14 64. Palestinian Teens Are Writing Wills, and for Good Reason February 17 65. The World Must Force Peace on Israel February 18 66. Israel Is Blaming Everyone but Itself for Its Own Disgrace February 22 67. Israel Has No Real Alternative to Netanyahu February 25 MARCH 68. Gaza’s Night of Death and Hunger March 3 69. After 150 Days of Death and Destruction in Gaza, Israel Is Neither Stronger Nor Safer March 7 70. Israeli Soldiers Shot Two Brothers to Death, a Third Is Wounded and a Fourth Is Arrested March 8 71. When Israel Becomes Like Hamas March 10 72. Israeli Leftists, Shake Off the Shock of October 7 and Open Your Eyes to Gaza March 13 Afterword