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- "An Owl Book" - Includes bibliographical references and index - Includes 3 black-and-white maps and some tables - Includes a glossary of terms - Includes chronology

PART I- YEARNING TO BE FREE 11 Chapter I The Military Governor Has Moved Buildings 13 Chapter 2 Leaflets Among the Diapers 31 PART II-FAMILIES JUST LIKE US 51 Chapter 3 Bougainvillea and a Pile of Rubble 53 Chapter 4 Khalid Switches Parties 72 Chapter 5 As It Is Written in the Quran 94 PART III-LOSS 121 Chapter 6 A Tax on Being Alive 123 Chapter 7 We Are from the Same Village 149 Chapter 8 Missing in Action 185 Chapter 9 Bring Home the POWs 208 PART IV- GAZA PRISON 231 Chapter 10 Yesterday's Permit 233 Chapter 11 Waiting to Turn Forty 264 Chapter 12 The Engine Has Stalled 283 Chapter 13 A People Up in Arms 307 Epilogue 344 Acknowledgments 353 Notes 355 Index 361

In 1993, amira hass, a young Israeli reporter, drove to Gaza to cover a story-and stayed, the first journalist to live in the grim Palestinian enclave so feared and despised by most Israelis that, in the local idiom, "Go to Gaza" is another way to say "Go to hell." Now, in a work of calm power and painful clarity, Hass reflects on what she has seen in Gaza's gutted streets and destitute refugee camps. Drinking the Sea at Gaza maps the zones of ordinary Palestinian life. From her friends, Hass learns the secrets of slipping across sealed borders and stealing through night streets emptied by curfews. She shares Gaza's early euphoria over the peace process and its subsequent despair as hope gives way to unrelenting hardship. But even as Hass charts the griefs and humiliations of the Palestinians, she offers a remarkable portrait of a people not brutalized but eloquent, spiritually resilient, bleakly funny, and morally courageous. Full of testimonies and stories, facts and impressions, Drinking the Sea at Gaza makes an urgent claim on our humanity. Beautiful, haunting, and profound, it will stand with the great works of wartime reportage, from Michael Herr's Dispatches to Rian Malan's My Traitor's Heart.