{"product_id":"the-gates-of-gaza-a-story-of-betrayal-survival-and-hope-in-israels-borderlands-9780316580960","title":"The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel's Borderlands","description":"\u003cb\u003eA gripping first-person account of how one Israeli grandfather helped rescue two generations of his family on October 7, 2023--a saga that reveals the deep tensions and systemic failures behind Hamas's attacks that day.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e On the morning of October 7, Amir Tibon and his wife were awakened by mortar rounds exploding near their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, a progressive Israeli community less than a mile from Gaza City. Soon, they were holding their two young daughters in the family's reinforced safe room, urging them not to cry as gunfire echoed just outside the door. With his cell phone battery running low, Amir texted his father: \"The girls are behaving really well, but I'm worried they'll lose patience soon and Hamas will hear us.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Some 45 miles north, Amir's parents had just cut short an early morning swim along the shores of Tel Aviv. Now, they jumped in their Jeep and sped toward Nahal Oz, armed only with a pistol but intent on saving their family at all costs. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Gates of Gaza\u003c\/i\u003e, Amir Tibon tells this harrowing story in full for the first time. He describes his family's ordeal--and the bravery that ultimately led to their rescue--alongside the histories of the place they call home and the systems of power that have kept them and their neighbors in Gaza in harm's way for decades. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Woven throughout is Tibon's own expertise as a longtime international correspondent, as well as more than thirty original interviews: with residents of his kibbutz, with the Israeli soldiers who helped to wrest it from the hands of Hamas, and with experts on Gaza, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the failed peace process. More than one family's odyssey, \u003ci\u003eThe Gates of Gaza\u003c\/i\u003e is the intimate story of a tight-knit community and the broader saga of war, occupation, and hostility between two national movements--a conflict that has not yet extinguished the enduring hope for peace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Little Brown and Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/24\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780316580960\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352","brand":"Amir Tibon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44507460042933,"sku":"9780316580960","price":25.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_69eacae0-a6cd-4340-b047-82dd99a84cca.jpg?v=1722312525","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-gates-of-gaza-a-story-of-betrayal-survival-and-hope-in-israels-borderlands-9780316580960","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}