Gaza, the centre of Palestinian nationalism and resistance to the occupation, is the linchpin of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the key to its resolution. Since 2005, Israel has deepened the isolation of the territory, severing it almost completely from its most vital connections to the West Bank, Israel and beyond, and has deliberately shattered its economy, transforming Palestinians from a people with political rights into a humanitarian problem. Sara Roy unpacks this process, looking at US foreign policy towards the Palestinians, as well as analysing the trajectory of Israeli policy toward Gaza, which became a series of punitive approaches meant not only to contain the Hamas regime but weaken Gazan society. Roy also reflects on Gaza's ruination from a Jewish perspective and discusses the connections between Gaza's history and her own as a child of Holocaust survivors. This book, a follow up from the renowned Failing Peace, comes from one of the world's most acclaimed writers on the region.

加沙是巴勒斯坦民族主义和抵抗占领的中心，是以巴冲突的关键所在，也是解决冲突的关键所在。自2005年以来，以色列加深了对该领土的隔离，几乎完全切断了它与西岸、以色列和其他地区的最重要联系，并蓄意破坏其经济，将巴勒斯坦人从一个拥有政治权利的民族变成一个人道主义问题。萨拉-罗伊解读了这一过程，审视了美国对巴勒斯坦人的外交政策，并分析了以色列对加沙的政策轨迹，这成为一系列惩罚性的方法，不仅是为了遏制哈马斯政权，也是为了削弱加沙社会。罗伊还从犹太人的角度反思了加沙的毁灭，并讨论了加沙的历史和她自己作为大屠杀幸存者的孩子之间的联系。这本书是著名的《失败的和平》的后续之作，来自世界上关于该地区最知名的作家之一。