What Really Changed on October 7th

Just over two years after the beginning of the genocide in Gaza, and just days after the announcement of a ceasefire, Aaron Bastani spoke to three Palestinian writers in front of a live audience at EartH in Hackney.

Ahmed Alnaouq is the host of Palestine Deep Dive and the co-founder of ‘We Are Not Numbers’, an organisation that provides international mentors for Palestinian writers.

Yara Eid is a war journalist, born and raised in Gaza, who has worked for Amnesty International and been published in The New Arab.

Tareq Baconi is a journalist and academic and is the former senior analyst for Israel/Palestine and Economics of Conflict at the International Crisis Group, based in Ramallah, and the author of Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance (Stanford University Press, 2018). Aaron spoke to Ahmed, Yara and Tareq about whether the ceasefire gives them hope, what really shifted on October 7th and how the genocide has changed them.

All of the panel guests’ work features in ‘Gaza: The Story of A Genocide’, which you can buy here: https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3511-gaza