Overview

• Their 18‑month correspondence, published as “Nos Coeurs invincibles,” was released in France on October 1 by Le Nouvel Obs and Flammarion.
• Tala Albanna, 22, from Gaza, and Michelle Amzalak, 25, from Sderot, met in person in Paris this week during the book’s launch after beginning to write in March 2024.
• Tala left Gaza on August 28 after securing a visa and scholarship to study law at the University of Galway in Ireland.
• The letters chronicle bombings, hunger and displacement in Gaza, and the Oct. 7 aftermath in southern Israel, including time in a bunker and a friend taken hostage and killed.
• Translations into several European languages are planned, and the authors hope for Hebrew and Arabic editions while voicing concern about possible backlash.