"It is first and foremost an eyewitness account of an everyman
and a true humanist. He was there during the Operation 'Cast Lead'
and so his daily dispatches came directly from the killing fields
of Gaza, and are therefore free of any media distortion or
manipulation."--Ilan Pappe, professor of history, University of
Exeter
An authoritative and deeply moving eyewitness account of the
terrible twenty-two-day Israeli offensive against the Gaza Strip in
December 2008 and January 2009. These daily dispatches were written
in precarious conditions, between bombing raids and intermittent
Internet access. Vittorio Arrigoni ends his dispatches with the
plea "stay human," which became the motto of the peace protests in
his native Italy. This English translation is updated with new
entries reflecting on life in Gaza after the offensive and also
features an introduction by famous Israeli historian Ilan
Pappe.
Vittorio Arrigoni was an internationally renowned human rights
activist who served as a volunteer with the pacifist International
Solidarity Movement and worked closely with fishermen and farmers
in Gaza. During the Israeli offensive against the Gaza Strip in
2008-9, Arrigoni acted as a human shield while working with the
Palestinian Red Crescent ambulances. Working as a freelance
journalist for the Italian daily "Il Manifesto," Arrigoni's daily
dispatches, written between bombing raids and patchy internet
access, ended with the plea, "stay human," which became the motto
of the anti-Israeli peace protests in his native Italy. His
authoritative and deeply moving eyewitness account was later
published in 2010 in Italian, French, German, and English, which
the historian Ilan Pappe described as the "account of an everyman
and a true humanist." On April 14, 2011, Arrigoni was kidnapped and
brutally murdered by militants in Gaza, which caused an
international outcry and was unanimously condemned by Hamas and the
Palestinian National Authority.
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