Operation Defensive Shield: Witnesses to Israeli War Crimes - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0745320643 ISBN 13: 9780745320649

Publisher: Pluto Press, 2003

Synopsis

On March 29, 2002 the Israeli army launched Operation Defensive Shield, the largest military offensive against Palestinian civilians since the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

When the operation ended on April 21, Israel had destroyed Palestinian's economic and social infrastructure, levelled large swathes of residential areas, killed 220 people, injured hundreds more and arrested thousands.

This book documents these events through a collection of witness testimonies by Palestinians and by Israeli and international peace activists. Deeply moving and courageous, these narratives offer a powerful and intimate account of the daily reality for Palestinians who endured Ariel Sharon's military strategy.

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About the Authors

Muna Hamzeh is a Palestinian-American journalist whose work on the Palestinian question has appeared in The Economist, Ha'aretz, The Christian Science Monitor, Jerusalem Report, and Middle East International, among others. Hamzeh was born in Jerusalem to a Muslim father and a Christian mother, both of whom were half-Palestinian, half-Lebanese. She lived in the Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem from 1988-2000. She is currently based at the University of Texas.

Professor Todd May is Class of 1941 Professor of the Humanities at Clemson University and has been active in the Palestinian rights movement since 1988. He is the author of The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994), Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Operation Defensive Shield (Pluto Press, 2003), The Political Thought of Jacques Rancière (Edinburgh University Press, 2008), and Death (Routledge, 2009).

Edition details

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0745320643
• ISBN 13: 9780745320649
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216
• Editor: Hamzeh Muna, May Todd