When former Al Jazeera Gaza Correspondent, journalist, policy analyst and author Laila El Haddad wrote her book The Gaza Kitchen in 2013, she had no idea that a decade later her compilation of Gazan recipes and oral family histories handed down the generations would become a written testimony to Gaza’s existence in the wake of the systematic murder of more than 23,000 of her people, and the blatant intention of the Israeli government to wipe Palestinians off the map. Laila also did not expect that some of the book’s contributors would no longer be alive today, not due to old age, but because t…