S. T. Salah, 7/2/26
Across the ruins of Gaza walks a child the world refuses to face.
In Handala’s Playground brings together testimonies of genocide and ethnic cleansing, interwoven with imagined dialogues confronting those who enabled or carried out the violence. Each chapter bears witness not only to what was lost, but to what survives: dignity, resistance, and the unbreakable human will to remember.
Handala stands at the center of these stories, the barefoot conscience of a world still failing its children.
S.T. Salah writes under a pen name. This book is both a record and a refusal to forget, to minimize, or to allow injustice to vanish into abstraction. It rejects hatred and revenge, and calls instead for dignity, equality, and shared humanity. Handala, the book’s guiding symbol, allows factual testimony and emotional truth to converge as an act of preservation against erasure.
Available now on Amazon in five languages, this book invites readers around the world to engage with its powerful message and urgent story. Every author royalty is donated to UNRWA to support Palestinians affected by displacement and genocide, meaning your purchase helps turn words into real-world impact.