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Operation Protective Edge, launched in early July 2014, was the 3rd major Israeli assault on the Gaza Remove in six years. It was also the most lethal. By the conclusion of hostilities some seven weeks later, 2,200 of Gaza's population had been wiped out, plus more than 10,000 wounded. In this reserve, journalist Mohammed Omer, a citizen of Gaza who resided through the terror of these days with his partner and then three-month-old kid, provides a first-hand bank account of life on-the-ground during Israel's assault. The images he documents in this astonishing chronicle are a literary equivalent of Goya's Disasters of Warfare: children's corpses stuffed into veg refrigerators, pointlessly because the electricity is off; a family hurrying out of their house after a telephone call from the Israeli military services informs them that the building will be obliterated by an F-16 missile in three minutes; donkeys machine-gunned by Israeli soldiers under instructions to take anything that goes; graveyards targeted with shells so that mourners can't inform where their relatives are buried; fishing boats ablaze in the harbor. Throughout this carnage, Omer keeps the cool detachment of the professional journalist, motivated to make a specific record of what's occurring in front of him. But between his lines the outrage comes, and we are still left to wonder how a population such as Israel, widely-praised in the Western as democratic and civilized, can visit such monstrosities on a stuck and helpless population.
