Gaza : A Journalist's Novel from the Middle East Frontier

GAZA depicts the horrors, the suffering and the manipulation of public opinion during the 60-year-old Israel-Palestine conflict. Giacomo, an Italian Jew, and Christian, a German, meet and develop a close friendship in Rome. Their brotherhood continues for years until both go to Israel ‹ Christian as a journalist, Giacomo as a member of his local Jewish community. Soon their ethnic roots strain the friendship and tear apart a passionate romance between Christian and Giacomo¹s sister, Miriam. The three travel separately through the Occupied Territories and witness, from different points of view, the cruel war between Jews and Arabs. On the journey the triós own racial prejudices are either reinforced or dismantled. Ultimately only compassion and a supreme act of love reunites them. Based on the real experiences of a journalist, GAZA exposes the barbarity and injustices of a conflict in which both sides have sacrificed their humanity.