(The Westbourne Press, ISBN 9781908906205)
From December 2007 to April 2009 Louisa Waugh lived and worked in the Gaza Strip. Her position as a human rights monitor brought her into close contact with ordinary Gazans and she was able to observe and share their attempts to live ordinary lives in inhumane conditions. Well over one and a half million people – three quarters of them under 25 – live in this strip of land just 40 kilometres by less than 12 kilometres. Blockaded, denied essential supplies and under constant threat of brutal military incursion by Israel, Gaza has been described, without hyperbole, as the ‘world’s largest open air prison’.
