"The definitive account of the 10/7 attacks through the stories of its victims and the communities they called home. On October 7, 2023--the Sabbath and the final day of the holiday of Sukkot--the Gaza-based terror group Hamas launched an unprecedented assault on the people of Israel. Crashing through the border, attacking from the sea and air, militants indiscriminately massacred civilians in what became one of the worst terror attacks in modern history, and the most lethal day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust. A radically passionate work of investigative journalism and political critique by acclaimed Haaretz reporter Lee Yaron, 10/7 chronicles the massacre that ignited a war through the stories of more than 100 civilians. These stories are the products of extensive interviews with survivors, the bereaved, and first responders in Israel and beyond. The victims run the gamut from left-wing kibbutzniks and Burning Man-esque partiers to radical right-wingers, from Bedouins and Palestinians to Thai and Nepalese guest workers, peace activists, elderly Holocaust survivors, refugees from Ukraine and Russia, pregnant women, and babies."
Record details
ISBN:1250366283
ISBN:9781250366283
Physical Description:276 pages : map ; 22 cm print
Edition:First edition.
Publisher:New York : St. Martin's Press, 2024.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note:
Mourning : an introduction -- Sderot -- Trip to the Dead Sea -- Odessa to Ashkelon -- Ofakim -- The Negev Bedouins -- Fathers and sons -- Warring: a history, 1948-2024 -- Rave -- To Kibbutz Be'eri and back -- Kathmandu to Kibbutz Alumim -- Warning: a history of Gaza -- Simchat Torah 5702/1941-Simchat Torah 5784/2023 -- Victims of grief -- Kites and eulogies -- Afterword by Joshua Cohen.