Don’t Look Left: A Diary of Genocide

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With a Foreword by Pulitzer Prize Winner Chris Hedges

On October 7, Israeli territory around the Erez border of Gaza Strip was invaded by Hamas’s

Al-Qassam Brigades, killing over 1,000 people. In response to this, the people of Gaza have been subjected to nearly eight months of wholesale genocide. Over 36,000 civilians have been killed, an estimated million made homeless and displaced, tens of thousands injured, and an entire population traumatised. Never in living history has such an atrocity been perpetrated in plain sight of the world’s leaders and mainstream media, who have all managed to give it their complete backing. Images and video clips of hourly horrors and tragedies have spread around the world, combatted by fake news propagated not by dark conspiratorial corners on the web, but by corporate media outlets and politicians. Baseless Israeli propaganda and

deliberately-biased framing has been fed to journalists and repeated, without question, on the front pages of the world’s newspapers and in the mouths of TV pundits and politicians.

One of the few voices of Gaza to make it out into Western media has been that of writer Atef Abu Saif, whose edited diary entries have been occasionally serialised in The New York Times, Washington Post, Le Monde and elsewhere. Here, the complete, unedited diaries show the journey of a man who arrived in Gaza just a few days before October 7 as a government minister and ended the period, like most other Palestinians, living in a tent in a refugee camp.

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Atef Abu Saif is the author of five novels. In 2015 Atef was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arab Fiction, and in the same year he published his diaries of the 2014 war on Gaza: The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary (Comma Press), which was described by Molly Crabapple as 'a modern classic of war literature'. In 2019, he relocated to the West Bank and became Minister of Culture for the Palestine Authority. At the start of Israel's 2023 war on Gaza, Atef was visiting Gaza for an International Heritage Day event with his 15-year-old son, Vasser.

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