A dispatch from inside catastrophe, written against euphemism.

In The Killing of Gaza, Gideon Levy gathers reports on the destruction of Gaza and the long political conditions that made that destruction possible, refusing the language of abstraction in favour of witness, detail, and historical memory.

This is not a neutral overview and does not pretend to be one. Levy writes as a journalist and longtime critic of Israeli state violence, but what gives the book its force is its refusal to let scale erase the human fact of what is happening. It is urgent, unsparing, and deliberately anti-amnesiac — a book for readers trying to understand not just the spectacle of devastation, but the structure beneath it.