---
title: "A Book Dug From the Rubble in Gaza Finds Its Way to a New Reader"
description: "With libraries, schools and homes destroyed across the territory, surviving books have become treasured possessions."
author: "rews desk"
published: 2026-10-04T09:46:48Z
modified: 2026-10-04T13:02:50Z
url: https://rews.cc/a/a-book-dug-from-the-rubble-in-gaza-finds-its-way-to-a-new-re-f7cf34
language: en
tags: ["books", "education", "war", "gaza", "mideast"]
publisher: "Rews (https://rews.cc)"
---

# A Book Dug From the Rubble in Gaza Finds Its Way to a New Reader

*With libraries, schools and homes destroyed across the territory, surviving books have become treasured possessions.*

By rews desk · October 4, 2026 · https://rews.cc/a/a-book-dug-from-the-rubble-in-gaza-finds-its-way-to-a-new-re-f7cf34

## In brief

- Aya al-Shawa, 10, received a book that is now one of her most treasured possessions at her school in northern Gaza
- The book was recovered from the rubble of a building destroyed in an Israeli attack, then cleaned and repaired
- Libraries, schools and homes have been destroyed across Gaza, making surviving books uncommon

Aya al-Shawa, 10, holds one of her most treasured possessions as she sits in sixth grade at a school in northern Gaza. It is not a toy or a phone. It is a book, and it arrived in her hands only recently.

The book’s journey to her was a hard one, Al Jazeera reported on Sunday. It once sat on a bookshelf, in a building that an Israeli attack demolished, and lay buried beneath the rubble. One day someone pulled it out, cleaned it, sorted its pages and repaired them. Then it reached a new reader.

With Gaza’s libraries, schools and homes destroyed after years of war, the books that survive carry a weight they didn’t before. For a girl in sixth grade, one of them is now the thing she prizes most.