Foreword -
Maps -
GAZA BEFORE THE STRIP:
1. The Crossroads of Empires -
2. The Islamic Era -
3. The British Mandate -
1947-67: THE GENERATION OF MOURNING:
4. The Catastrophe -
5. Refugees and Fedayin -
6. The First Occupation -
7. Nasser's Children -
1967-87: THE GENERATION OF DISPOSSESSION:
8. The Four Years War -
9. The Era of the Notables -
10. The Alien Peace -
11. The New Wave -
1987-2007: THE GENERATION OF THE INTIFADAS:
12. The Revolt of the Stones -
13. A Sharply Limited Authority -
14. Days of Fury -
15. One Palestine Against Another -
CONCLUSION: THE GENERATION OF IMPASSESH:
16. Five Years in the Ruins -
Afterword to the Second Edition: Gaza The Key to War and Peace -
Notes -
Select Bibliography -
Chronology -
Population Statistics -
Biographies -
Index of Organisations -
Index of Personal Names.

Through its millennium-long existence, Gaza has often been bitterly disputed, yet enduringly neglected. Squeezed between the Negev and Sinai deserts and the Mediterranean Sea, Gaza was contested by everyone from the Pharaohs, Persians, Greeks and Romans to the Arabs, Crusaders, Ottomans and British. And, since 1948, Gaza has been at the heart of Palestinian nationalism and history.
Filiu’s book was the first comprehensive history of Gaza to be published in any language. This new, updated edition covers events since 2011, including Gaza’s renewed tragic centrality to world politics and security since the events of October 2023: history’s worst attack on Israel, provoking history’s worst war against the Palestinians.