Gaza: The Story of a Genocide is an urgent and powerful collection of personal testimony, poetry, photography, art, and frontline reportage. Together, these works bear witness to the vast and ongoing destruction in­flicted on the Palestinian people-their lives, their land, and their future.

Ahmed Alnaouq recounts the devastating loss of twenty-one family members. Noor Alyacoubi offers a searing reflection on starvation. Mariam Barghouti examines the brutality of Israeli settler violence in the West Bank, while Eman Bashir describes the phenomenon of a "wounded child, no surviving family." These voices, among many others, illuminate the endur­ing psychological, physical, and generational toll of state violence.

With contributions from recipients of the Palestine Book Award, Arab American Book Award, Pulitzer Prize, Emmy Award, National Book Award, and Gandhi Peace Award, this collection also honors the late poet Hiba Abu Nada-killed in an Israeli airstrike on her home in Khan Younis, Gaza, on October 20, 2023.

All royalties will be donated directly to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.

"The ongoing horror of the Palestinian genocide in Gaza, undertaken by Israel and abetted by the United States, livestreamed and posted 24/7 for the uncaring world to see, remains difficult to fully comprehend. So perhaps it is best then, whenever possible, to give Palestinians a voice. Here then is Gaza: The Story of a Genocide, with contributions from some of the greatest Palestinian and Arab writers working today, including Mosab Abu Toha, Susan Abulhawa, Omar Barghouti, Huda J. Fakhreddine, Lina Mounzer, and Mary Turfah." - Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025

"Editors Fatima Bhutto and Sonia Faleiro present twenty contributions from a wide range of Palestinian perspectives - poets and writers, doctors and academics, artists and organizers.The contributors bear witness to unspeakable brutality and callousness and disregard for human life. Yet somehow, as the writer Eman Basher notes in her essay, Gaza is a place where hope is the ultimate act of defiance." - California Review of Books

"This haunting and informative collection of personal accounts, reporting, poetry, art, and photographs by prominent Palestinian writers and artists fills in the backstory of Israel's genocidal war on Gaza and provides some unexpected perspectives." - Booklist