Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza, which will soon enter its fifteenth month, has killed scores of Palestinian writers and journalists, obliterated the region’s cultural infrastructure, and sent shock waves through the global literary community. Book festivals, awards bodies, literary organizations, cultural outlets, and publishing houses have all been riven by fierce internal disputes about how to respond to what many have described as the most documented genocide in history. Meanwhile, thousands of authors from around the world have used their platforms to speak out in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
In its capacity as “ ,” Lit Hub has covered many stories at the grim intersection of the book world and the Gazan genocide. We have also been proud, this year and in years previous, to publish a broad range of . Here is a selection of pieces from a dark and devastating fifteen months: The long year in Gaza.
* Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed at least and at least in its assault on the besieged enclave. On October 10, Mohammad Abdulrahim Saleh, the , was killed by an Israeli airstrike. He was just twenty-one years old at the time of his death.
On October 20, the novelist, poet, and educator was killed by an Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza. A year later, Somaia Abu Nada wrote . , the National Book Award-nominated Palestinian American poet and physician, to Israeli airstrikes in just the first month of the conflict, and many more in the year since.
On Nove.
