Relief, guilt and survival on a father and son’s journey through the hellscape of Gaza
Non-fiction
Atef Saif, a Palestinian government minister in Ramallah, is invited to Gaza, his birthplace, to attend a conference for National Heritage Day. His 15-year-old son Yasser is travelling with him.
Early on the morning of the conference, Atef, his brother and brother-in-law decide to go for a swim. As fate would have it, it’s the morning of October 7, the day Hamas attacked southern Israel, to which the Israelis responded by bombarding the town of Jabalia.
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