Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0805057404 ISBN13: 9780805057409 Release Date: June 2000 Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL Length: 400 Pages Weight: 0.82 lbs. Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.4" 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 the Gaza Strips'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 a