‘The first thing I thought about was the books’: The fight for a Gaza library

Opened April 2026, the Phoenix Library in Gaza City is rebuilding a culture of reading with books salvaged from more than two years of destruction.

‘The first thing I thought about was the books’: The fight for a Gaza library
Opened April 2026, the Phoenix Library in Gaza City is rebuilding a culture of reading with books salvaged from more than two years of destruction.