Gaza Rising: Voices from the Rubble

"Gaza Rising provides an invaluable insight, enabling the reader to finally comprehend the indomitable steadfastness of a people, who, despite their geographical constraints, size and material predicament, have become the beating heart of global change." ROBERT INLAKESH, Prominent Expert on Palestine and the Middle East.

"When genocide is the project, the targets of that genocide remind us―indeed they keep us from forgetting―that their very acts of living are acts of resistance. The stories gathered here speak from the heart of Palestinian defiance and remind us of this truth, which is being tested like never before. If the people in these stories are heroic―and I believe they are―then this is a book of heroes. And of villains with many more weapons than souls among them." RON JACOBS, Counterpunch

This is not another book about the people of Gaza, told on their behalf. This is their testament to the will to not merely survive, but to celebrate their own communal endurance. Curated in this essential collection of grassroots narratives, the reader will find dozens of references to the fragile joys of life despite it all. The chapters of this book were not written in heated offices or in places of relative comfort. They were composed in Gaza, the frontline and compass of humanity, in flooded tents, demolished buildings, and rubble, under total blockade. From doctors to animal carers, lovers and resistance organisers, the steadfast ‘audacity and courage’ of the people of Gaza pours from every page. Their words should inspire us all to fight alongside them for a new world.”LOUIS BREHONY, author of Palestinian Music in Exile, editor of Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Writings, and director of Kofia: A Revolution Through Music

"The collection of stories and essays written by Gazan authors under the cruelest genocide in our lifetime, edited by Dr. Ramzy Baroud, Prof. Ilan Pappe, and Romana Rubeo, is an incredible and crucial piece of evidence from the killing fields of Gaza, even before the end of this terrifying crime against humanity. On reading it one is bound to fall in love with the people of Gaza, with the people of Palestine - not just because of their immense pain and loss which is unimaginable, but mainly due their Sumoud – their immense but gentle strength, their humanity, and the ability to love, to exist, and to remain amazing human beings despite all that Zionist brutality has done to them over more than a century. This book is a fitting textual memorial to the hundreds of thousands who have been exterminated by Israel." NAIM BRESHEETH, Professorial Research Associate at SOAS University of London, author of An Army Like No Other.

Ilan Pappé is an Israeli historian and socialist activist. He is a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter, director of the university's European Centre for Palestine Studies, and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies. His latest book is Ten Myths About Israel. His books also include "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" and "The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge". Pappé’s research focuses on the modern Middle East and in particular the history of Israel and Palestine.