The Killing of Gaza Reports on a Catastrophe Gideon Levy

The Killing of Gaza Reports on a Catastrophe

Gideon Levy

VERSO 2024

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Contents

Introduction: Catastrophe Report

PART I

2014

1. What Were We Thinking? July 10

2. Death to Arabs July 13

3. What Does Hamas Want? July 20

4. Go to Gaza, See for Yourself August 10

5. War, What War? September 18

2015

6. A Futile Report June 25

7. No Picnic, No Tragedy July 2

2016

8. It's Never Israel's Fault: Two Gazan Children Are Dead and Their Story

Goes Untold March 17

9. If Gazans Don't Fire, No One Listens June 1

10. Broken Families in Limbo July 8

2017

11. The Wall of Insanity August 13

12. Sacred Sovereignty November 2

2018

13. Strangling Gaza April 5

14. Bleeding in the Sand April 24

15. In the Fields of Philistia May 18

16. We Should Be Saluting the Gaza Strip July 15

2019

17. "It Would Be More Convenient If We'd Died" June 7

18. "My Future Turned Black" July 12

19. The Trial of "Inmate X" October 18

2020

20. Happy New Year, Gaza 2 January 21. Nobody Opposes the War May 16

2021

22. One Image, 2 Million People October 10

23. Congratulations: The Gaza Ghetto Now Has a Fence Around It December

2022

24. The Only Way March 31

25. The War of Change and Healing August 7

26. When Roger Waters Cried August 11

27. An Election for Whites Only October 30

2023

28. The People of Israel Will Remember Its Children April 23

29. I Was Wrong About Netanyahu May 11

30. Do You Really Want to Go On Living Like This? May 14

PART II

OCTOBER

31. Israel Can't Imprison Two Million Gazans Without Paying a Cruel Price

October 9

32. The Reckoning Must Be with Hamas, Not with All Gazans October 12

33. A Bloodcurdling Visit to Israel's South After the Hamas Attack Evokes

ISIS and Ukraine October 14

34. On Kibbutz Be'eri, Time Stood Still: Traces of the Life Before the Massacre October 19

35. It Is Forbidden to Even Empathize with Innocent Gazans October 26

36. Northern Inexposure: Former "Peace" on Lebanon Border Replaced by

Deathly Silence October 29

NOVEMBER

37. These Are the Children Extracted After the Bombardment of Gaza's

Jabalya Refugee Camp November 2

38. If We Can't See the Eyes of Gaza's Dead Children, Can We See Children at All? November 5

39. If Israel Resists Examining Its Own Failures, Another War Awaits Us

November 9

40. A Population Transfer Under the Cover of War: A Visit to the Forsaken Land of Settler Militias November 18

41. Giora Eiland's Monstrous Gaza Proposal Is Evil in Plain Sight November 23

42. Forty-Two Palestinians Killed in Seven Weeks: A Visit to a West Bank

City That Has Become a Firing Zone November 25

43. Is It Permissible to Rejoice in the Joy of Palestinians Released from

Israeli Prisons? November 26

DECEMBER

44. While War Rages in Gaza, Israeli Troops and Settlers Grow Trigger-Happy in Ramallah December 2

45. Israel Has Turned Its Back on the Hostages in Favor of Destroying Gaza

December 2

46. The Israeli Army's Incursions Are More Frequent and Violent; the Jenin Refugee Camp Is Now Little Gaza December 8

47. By Trying to Humiliate Gaza to Its Core, Israel Is the One Being Humiliated December 10

48. If Settler Violence Wasn't Enough, Israel Is Now Depriving Jordan

Valley Palestinians of Water December 16

49. Would Israel Be Any Different Without Netanyahu? December 21

50. A Disabled Palestinian Was Carrying a Bag of Lollipops When He Was

Shot by Israeli Troops December 23

51. When Israel Abuses the Hostages That It Holds December 23

52. There's No Way to "Explain" the Degree of Death and Destruction in

Gaza December 28

53. The Legitimization of Evil Will Remain with Israelis Long After the War in Gaza Ends December 31

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JANUARY

54. No Israeli Soldiers Have Stood Up and Refused to Participate in This

Evil War January 3

55. Someone in Israel's Army Decided to Bring This Quiet West Bank Area into the Circle of Violence January 5

56. Palestinians in Gaza Are Being Held Hostage by Israel and Hamas

January 11

57. If It Isn't a Genocide in Gaza, Then What Is It? January 14

58. The Gaza I Loved Will Never Be the Same January 24

59. Israel's Mainstream Brought Us to The Hague, Not Its Lunatic Fringes

January 28

FEBRUARY

60. Israel's Dignity Will Be Damaged, Hamas Will Be Crowned Winner, but the War Will End February 7

61. Israeli Border Police Killed a 4-Year-Old Palestinian Girl, Then Took 10

Days to Return Her Body February 10

62. An Israeli Incursion into Gaza's Rafah Will Be an Unprecedented

Humanitarian Catastrophe February 11

63. With the "Perfect" Hostage Rescue Operation, Israel's Dehumanization of Palestinians in Gaza Reached a New Low February 14

64. Palestinian Teens Are Writing Wills, and for Good Reason February 17

65. The World Must Force Peace on Israel February 18

66. Israel Is Blaming Everyone but Itself for Its Own Disgrace February 22

67. Israel Has No Real Alternative to Netanyahu February 25

MARCH

68. Gaza's Night of Death and Hunger March 3

69. After 150 Days of Death and Destruction in Gaza, Israel Is Neither Stronger Nor Safer March 7

70. Israeli Soldiers Shot Two Brothers to Death, a Third Is Wounded and a

Fourth Is Arrested March 8

71. When Israel Becomes Like Hamas March 10

72. Israeli Leftists, Shake Off the Shock of October 7 and Open Your Eyes to Gaza March 13

73. Every Person Killed in Gaza Has a Name March 20

APRIL

74. Four Black Dots in Khan Yunis, Gaza April 7

75. In Six Months in Gaza, Israel's Worst-Ever War Achieved Nothing but

Death and Destruction April 10

76. If Iran Attacks Israel, the Blame Lies on Israel's Irresponsible Decision-

Makers 12 April

77. Israel's Right-Wing Can Never Seem to Get Enough Death and

Destruction 21 April

78. Palestinian Released from Israeli Prison Describes Beatings, Sexual Abuse and Torture 28 April

MAY

79. Let Israel's Leaders Get Arrested for War Crimes May 5

80. What About the Palestinian Hostages? 16 May 81. At Last, Justice; but Will Israelis Start Waking Up? May 23

82. Obeying the ICJ Order Is Israel's Last Opportunity to Save Itself from

Becoming a Pariah State May 26

JUNE

83. Biden Wants Peace, but Israel Wants War June 2

84. Why Did Israel Conceal Hundreds of Gazans' Deaths in "Perfect"

Hostage Rescue Operation? June 12

Afterword

Acknowledgments