Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life : Voices from Gaza

Author: Yazbek, Samar

Memoirs

Published on 21 May 2026 by Fitzcarraldo Editions in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 256 pages
197 x 125

In the year following 7 October 2023, Samar Yazbek met with hundreds of survivors from Gaza, asking each of them about their experiences of that day and the months of destruction and displacement that followed. From these encounters comes Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life, a selection of twenty-six testimonies from ordinary civilians aged thirteen to sixty-five, whose lives have been irrevocably altered by what may one day be remembered as one of the most savage military offensives of our time. Adapted from warning flyers dropped moments before a bombing, the books title captures the impossible reality of life for Gazans. That reality is laid bare in accounts marked by unimaginable loss homes shattered, loved ones vanished, limbs obliterated and mechanisms of cruelty that defy comprehension. In gathering these testimonies, Yazbek brings into focus the human lives behind the headlines, and the survivors determination, even amid devastation, to speak and to be heard.