10/7 : 100 human stories

10/7 100 human stories

Lee Yaron

Book - 2024

"The definitive account of the 10/7 attacks through the stories of its victims and the communities they called home. On October 7, 2023-the Sabbath and the final day of the holiday of Sukkot-the Gaza-based terror group Hamas launched an unprecedented assault on the people of Israel. Crashing through the border, attacking from the sea and air, militants indiscriminately massacred civilians in what became one of the worst terror attacks in modern history, and the most lethal day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust. A radically passionate work of investigative journalism and political critique by acclaimed Haaretz reporter Lee Yaron, 10/7 chronicles the massacre that ignited a war through the stories of more than 100 civilians. Thes...e stories are the products of extensive interviews with survivors, the bereaved, and first responders in Israel and beyond. The victims run the gamut from left-wing kibbutzniks and Burning Man-esque partiers to radical right-wingers, from Bedouins and Israeli Arabs to Thai and Nepalese guest workers, peace activists, elderly Holocaust survivors, refugees from Ukraine and Russia, pregnant women, and babies. At a time when people are seeking a deeper understanding of the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and how internal political turmoil in Israel has affected it, they predominantly encounter perspectives from the powerful-from politicians and military officers. 10/7 takes a fresh approach, offering answers through the stories of everyday people, those who lived tenuously on the border with Gaza. Yaron profiles victims from a wide range of communities-depicting the fullness of their lives, not just their final moments-to honor their memories and reveal the way the attack ripped open Israeli society and put the entire Middle East on the precipice of disaster. Each chapter begins with a portrait of a community, interweaving history with broader political analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to provide context for the narratives that follow. Ultimately, 10/7 shows that the tragedy is much greater than the violence of the attacks, and in fact extends back through the entire Netanyahu era, which propagated a false image of Israel as a technologically advanced, militarily formidable powerhouse so essential to the region that it could continue to ignore and undermine Palestinian statehood indefinitely"--

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Subjects
Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-Islāmīyah.
October 7 Hamas Attack, Israel, 2023.
Israelis > Gaza Strip > Biography.
Jews > Gaza Strip > Biography.
Arab-Israeli conflict > 1993-
Gaza Strip > Biography.
Personal narratives.
Biographies.
Genres
Personal narratives
Biographies
Published
New York : St. Martin's Press 2024.
Language
English
Main Author
Lee Yaron (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
276 pages : map ; 22 cm
ISBN
9781250366283
  • Mourning: An Introduction
  • Sderot
  • Trip to the Dead Sea
  • Odessa to Ashkelon
  • Ofakim
  • The Negev Bedouins
  • Fathers and Sons
  • Warring: A History, 1948-2024
  • Rave
  • To Kibbutz Be'eri and Back
  • Kathmandu to Kibbutz Alumim
  • Warning: A History of Gaza
  • Simchat Torah 5702/1941-Simchat Torah 5784/2023
  • Victims of Grief
  • Kites and Eulogies
  • Afterword
  • Acknowledgments
Review by Kirkus Book Review

A collection of intimate stories about the Israeli victims in the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack. With contributions from Cohen,Haaretz journalist Yaron has interviewed countless people and their families to craft this moving look at the lives and harrowing deaths of Israelis and guest workers on 10/7. The author alternates the heartbreaking, immediate profiles with some history of Israel as well as of the kibbutzim, the small activist, agricultural communities where many of the victims were struck. "The terrorists of Hamas murdered and destroyed the very communities that did more than any others to promote peace between the two peoples," she writes. Moreover, in story after story, Yaron relates how many victims of 10/7 descended from Holocaust survivors or had moved to Israel for their safety. Beginning with Sderot, she notes how this southern city of immigrants has suffered from Hamas' onslaught of rockets for many years and how 50 of its citizens were killed on 10/7. A group of elders on a minibus to a Dead Sea resort, many of whom were refugees from the Soviet satellite states, were gunned down on the streets; in Ofakim, one of Israel's poorest cities, 49 residents were murdered. The author visited Bedouin communities in the Negev, where missiles rained down on the vulnerable residents, as well as the Kibbutz Alumim, where a group of Nepalese students working the fields were killed. The most horrendous toll of all was the 364 people murdered at the Nova music festival site (another 40 were kidnapped). "In the minds of many Israelis, including leading politicians," writes Yaron, "disengagement from Gaza was the original sin, and a direct line connects Israel's 2005 withdrawal from the strip to the far-right Judicial Reform and massacre eighteen years later." Haunting eyewitness accounts of one of the decade's most catastrophic events. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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