Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781761381287
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2024
Publisher: Scribe Publications


Description:
The gripping, true story of how leading Israeli journalist Amir Tibon, along with his wife and their two young children, were rescued on 7 October 2023 by Tibon's father - an incredible tale of survival that also reveals the deep tensions and systemic failures that led to Hamas's attacks that day.




On that fateful day, Tibon and his wife were awakened by mortar rounds exploding near their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, a progressive Israeli settlement along the Gaza border. Soon, they were holding their two young daughters in the family's reinforced safe room, urging them not to cry while they all listened to the gunfire from Hamas attackers outside their windows. With his mobile phone battery running low, Amir texted his father- 'The girls are behaving really well, but I'm worried they'll lose patience soon and Hamas will hear us.'




Some 45 miles north, Amir's parents had just cut short an early-morning swim along the shores of Tel Aviv. Now, they jumped in their Jeep and sped toward Nahal Oz, armed only with a pistol but intent on saving their family at all costs.




In The Gates of Gaza, Amir Tibon tells this harrowing story in full for the first time. He describes his family's ordeal - and the bravery that ultimately led to their rescue - alongside the histories of the place they call home and the systems of power that have kept them and their neighbours in Gaza in harm's way for decades.




Woven throughout is Tibon's own expertise as a longtime international correspondent, as well as more than thirty original interviews- with residents of his kibbutz, with the Israeli soldiers who helped to