I am Mohammed Aloosh, from northern Gaza, now living in Italy on scholarship. Before I wrote this book, I lived its pages. This is the story behind the story.
I hold a bachelor's degree in Business Administration. For five years, I worked in digital marketing and business development, running paid advertising for clients across the region. In my last project before the war, I managed over $1 million in ad spend on Snapchat, Facebook and Instagram, generating $4 million in sales for one client in six months.
That was the life I had built — a career I loved, and a future I was excited to pursue.
I stopped everything. I lived through two years of genocide in northern Gaza.
My home was destroyed. I witnessed thousands of massacres and documented hundreds of them. I watched the place I had known my entire life disappear, block by block.
I lost more than 70 members of my family, including my sister, my uncle Fadi, who is still beneath the rubble, my cousins, and my friends.
I also lost my home, my job, my small business, and everything I had spent years building.
Names that were once dinner tables, phone calls, and inside jokes are now dates and memories — or nothing at all, because there was no time, and no place safe enough, to bury everyone properly.
I am in Italy now, on a scholarship, studying and writing. I wrote We Will Recover There to tell the truth about what it means to live under genocide. I also wrote it to help people appreciate what they have before it is taken away.
Silence felt like another kind of loss. This book carries their names forward — Fadi's, my sister's, and everyone whose story would otherwise disappear with them.
I am rebuilding a life and a career from here. But first, I needed to write this down.
My uncle Fadi raised me. He was part of my everyday life and the role model who shaped the person I became. His love, guidance, and values remain with me every day.
Although he is no longer with us, his memory lives on in every page of this book.