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Gaza - A history of the Palestinian tragedy
by Lucas Catherine & Charles Ducal
‘Israeli tanks destroy Gaza City’
‘Israel bombards UN school in Gaza’
‘Inhabitants of Gaza isolated in open air prison’
The newspaper headlines on the Israeli invasion of Gaza in 2008 were quite clear:
1,400 dead, of whom a third were children.
4,000 buildings destroyed.
No food supplies. No medicines.
Why this iron Israeli assault? Was it because of the Palestinian missiles that hit Israel? Or does Israel have other reasons? Why is Hamas launching missiles? Is it a terrorist attack of fundamentalists? Or are there deeper causes? How did the conflict between Israeli and Palestinians start? How is the peace process going? Is there a solution?
These are all questions answered by Arabia expert Lucas Catherine in this revealing book. The facts, used in an historic summary of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, lead to conclusions on the real causes of this Palestinian tragedy. Poet Charles Ducal reflects on the drama in a striking cycle of nine poems.