The carnage of asymmetric war
Syrian journalist Samar Yazbek
ALAMY/NTB, LISE AASERUD
Some saw lies being created: the only MRI scanner in Gaza being photographed with guns beside it before it was smashed.
This is a horrifying book, its chilling title taken from leaflets distributed in Gaza by the Israel Defence Forces, not often in time for the recipients to escape being bombed. The Israelis have famously allowed no foreign journalists into Gaza since 7 October 2023, and have killed more than 250 Palestinian journalists. Samar Yazbek is a Syrian writer, in exile since taking part in protests against the Assad regime during the Arab Spring of 2011, and tragically experienced in the carnage of asymmetric war.
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