My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza's Untold Story

Memoir by Ramzy Baroud centers on the life of Baroud's father, a Palestinian refugee who fled to Gaza from Bayt Daras (near Yafa) during the 1948 Nakba and spent his life in the Nuseirat refugee camp under Israeli occupation. Baroud uses his father's biography to tell the broader story of Gaza being a territory displaced, besieged, and fought over since 1948 but whose history is rarely told on its own terms. Weaves family history with the political history of Gaza and the Palestinian refugee experience. Valuable for researchers and general readers seeking a humanizing account of Gaza's history through personal and family memoir, connecting the 1948 Nakba to the long experience of blockade and occupation in the Gaza Strip.