Shadows of Gaza: Stories I Couldn't Let Die Hardcover – Large Print, October 21, 2025

Shadows of Gaza: Stories I Couldn’t Let DieBy Salem Medhat AlaydiI’m 18 years old, and I’ve spent my whole life in Gaza. My home was destroyed in 2023, and since then I’ve been living in a man-made tent. Through everything, the bombings, the hunger, the endless days of fear I’ve carried my cell phone.This book is my way of making sure the people I’ve met, the faces I’ve seen, and the stories I’ve heard don’t disappear into silence. Shadows of Gaza is filled with real photographs of real people kids, parents, grandparents taken between 2024 and 2025. These are not nameless faces. They have names, lives, dreams. Some of them loved drawing, some wanted to be doctors or football players. Many of them faced the hardest days of the 21st century genocide, starvation, displacement.Every page is a piece of our history, a history the world doesn’t tell you. These are our voices, our truth. We are Palestinians from Gaza. We are still here. This is not just my story, it’s the story of all of us who lived it. And I couldn’t let it die. Read more