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Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege
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By Amira Hass
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In , Amira Aass, 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
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Amira Hass
Biography
Hass was born in Jerusalem to parents who were Holocaust survivors and members of the Communist movement. Her father, Avraham, a native of Romania, was an activist in the Communist Party and later elected to its central committee. Her mother, Hannah (née Levi), born in Serbia, was also a communist activist who joined Tito's partisans.
After World War II, her parents immigrated to Israel and initially lived in Jerusalem. In her book "Drinking from the Sea of Gaza," Hass recounts that her mother's story from the Holocaust influenced her decision, at a young age, not to be a bystander when witnessing injustice.
Amira Hass began her career as a journalist in She worked as a correspondent in Romania during the post-communist era. In , she was appointed as a correspondent for Palestinian affairs by the newspaper "Haaretz."
Hass learned Arabic and decided to reside in the Gaza Strip to closely examine the affairs of the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian socie
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Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege
About this ebook
In , Amira Aass, 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,