Press kit
Everything needed to cover the book on one page: a short synopsis, the author’s biography, cover and author images cleared for editorial use, the ISBNs, and how to get a review copy. The complete text is also free to read, so nothing here is behind a request.
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Synopsis
Pariah: How Gaza Broke Israel is a chronicle of witness, silence and reckoning in the world’s first livestreamed genocide. Drawing on more than 550 of Richard Powell’s Gaza reports since 2024, together with eyewitness testimony, government and UN records and Palestinian-created digital archives, it is a forensic record of the destruction of Gaza from October 2023, and of the political, legal and media machinery that allowed it to continue in full view. In five parts it traces the siege and its causes, the October 2023 breach and the information war, the legal reckoning, the geopolitical realignment, and Israel’s collapsing international standing.
A former foreign correspondent’s 479-page record of the Gaza war and of what it did to Israel’s standing in the West – published in paperback, hardback and eBook, and free to read online.
Review
“The definitive historical record of the Gaza war and the failure of the Western world.” greatreporter, 21 February 2026
The author
Richard Powell is a British investigative journalist and foreign correspondent with more than two decades of conflict reporting – beginning in Kosovo as a journalism student, then Iraq, Sudan, Liberia and Beirut. He was on the Iraqi border before the first bomb fell in March 2003.
He is the founder of the news sites greatreporter and UKTECH, and of the press-release service Presswire. Since 2024 he has published more than 550 reports on Gaza; they form the evidentiary foundation of Pariah. He publishes through Videowire Limited.
Richard Powell is a British investigative journalist and former foreign correspondent (Kosovo, Iraq, Sudan, Liberia, Beirut), founder of greatreporter, UKTECH and Presswire, and the author of Pariah: How Gaza Broke Israel (2026).
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Bibliographic details
| Title | Pariah: How Gaza Broke Israel |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | A chronicle of witness, silence and reckoning in the world’s first livestreamed genocide |
| Author | Richard Powell |
| Publisher | Videowire Limited |
| Published | 11 February 2026 |
| Extent | 479 pages · English |
| Paperback | ISBN 978-969-9193-98-9 (Videowire edition, Ingram – any bookshop can order it) ISBN 979-8-27-763251-2 (Amazon print) · Waterstones £25 · Barnes & Noble $25 |
| Hardback | ISBN 979-8-24-739518-8 · Amazon |
| eBook | ISBN 978-969-9294-10-5 · ASIN B0GMLTN4Y2 · Kindle and NOOK |
| Free edition | PDF, EPUB, torrent and magnet link – no registration, no payment |
| Subjects | Gaza · Israel–Palestine · international law · media and war · Middle East politics |
Talking points
The first livestreamed war. What it means for the historical record when the evidence is created by the people under bombardment and published in real time – and what the book does with those archives.
The legal reckoning. The legal thresholds in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the ICJ, and what the book’s record adds to them.
Britain’s part. Arms, enabling and silence: the UK material set out in the book’s press release as carried by PA Media.
Journalists as targets. The reporters killed in Gaza set against every conflict since the American Civil War, using the Costs of War figures cited in the book.
Why the book is free. A record written to be read rather than sold, and what that decision has done to its readership.
A correspondent’s view. Twenty years of conflict reporting, from Kosovo to Beirut, and why Gaza was different.
Press record
The full list, including the ten syndicated articles, is on the home page.
