Welcome to Hell: From the West Bank to Gaza

by Mohammad Sabaaneh

128 pages, Paperback

Expected publication May 5, 2026

About the author

Mohammad Sabaaneh is a Palestinian cartoonist.

He is the principal political cartoonist for the Palestinian Authority's daily newspaper, Al-Hayat al-Jadida.

Sabaaneh is a Middle East representative for the Cartoonists Rights Network International and teaches art at the Arab American University of Palestine.

His graphic novel Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine, which tells the autobiographical story of his time as a political prisoner in Israel, received the Palestine Book Award. He currently lives in Ramallah, in the West Bank.

Reviews

[Kirin · Rating 4 out of 5]

This powerful 128 page adult graphic novel chronicles the author's brother's experience in a detention center in the Occupied West Bank, with glimpses of Gaza, threaded through. The sparse words and black and white drawings are presented as a memoir, with the confidence and clarity, that comes from OWN voice writing. There is no need to explain, or try and give context to the "silent genocide" that we all watched in real time. The truth is brutal, horrific, severe, and this book presents it in an unflinching manner. Starting on October 7, 2023 the sentiment that Palestinians will not leave, is tested at the hands of an occupying military determined to not only forcefully remove a people, but determined to make them suffer at every turn. The daily struggle to simply survive amongst such cruelty is perhaps the greatest expression of resistance. May Allah swt forgive us all for our silence and inaction.

[beyondthebookcase95 · Rating 4 out of 5]

A poignant and powerful memoir about what is happening in Gaza and how it is affecting the people there and their resilience in a time of genocide.

ARC provided by Edelweiss and publisher all thoughts are my own.

[Mia Caven · Rating 5 out of 5]

powerful.