Throughout this chapter, I argue that Atef Abu Saif’s 2015 memoir, The Drone Eats With Me: A Gaza Diary, and his 2023 book, Don’t Look Left: A Diary of Genocide, invite us to re-approach the memoir as a post-9/11 cultural practice of counter-archiving. Written during the IDF’s 2014 “Protective Edge” campaign against Gaza, The Drone Eats with Me confronts readers with an episodic account of Israel’s siege and its reliance on drone warfare as the preferred technology of its disavowed occupation of Gaza. Saif’s use of the memoir contests the drone’s surveillance archive that seeks to establish “patterns of life”—movements and communal gatherings that might portend terrorist activity and thus authorize a preemptive strike—ultimately comprising, Grégoire Chamayou observes, a “file that... will become a death warrant” (49). The Drone Eats With Me instead chronicles the patterns of disallowed life Palestinians experience in the necropolitical zone that is Gaza. Saif elucidates how drone warfare eliminates, as Gil Z. Hochberg remarks, the “possibility of witnessing” (166) and, alongside this, questions the efficacy of his own testimony. Even as Saif uses many of the conventions of human rights literature, his work uneasily draws on these conventions and alerts readers to how Palestine and Palestinians have been positioned outside of or, Noura Erakat argues, only precariously included within, the framework of international human rights law.