Wendepunkt im Nahen Osten?

What's next, one year after Hamas' attack on Israel? A taz talk with Palestinian activist Hamza Howidy and Middle East scholar Tom Khaled Würdemann.

The Middle East conflict has been going on for decades, but a turning point occurred last year. The Israeli media now refer to 7 October 2023 as "Black Saturday" - the day on which the Islamist terrorist organization Hamas broke through the border between Gaza and Israel to carry out an unprecedented massacre.

Event information

When: Mon, 7.10.24, 7 p.m.

Admission: 6 pm

Where: taz canteen

Friedrichstr. 21

10969 Berlin

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Free admission, donations requested

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Seat reservation required

Places are limited, admission is free of charge.

The canteen event will be streamed live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOQ3QaiiN-0

The terrorists murdered over 1,000 people, including children, foreign civilians and over 300 visitors to a music festival. Around 250 Israeli hostages were taken to the Gaza Strip that day, some of whom have still not been released. The attack is considered the largest continuous mass murder of Jews since the Shoah.

Immediately afterwards, a months-long hell began for the population of the Gaza Strip that continues to this day: almost 40,000 people were killed by Israeli military action, including thousands of children.

According to the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, more than half of the people have lost at least one family member during the ongoing war. One year on, what prospects for a solution to the conflict are still conceivable in view of such proportions?

🐾 Hamza Howidy is a Palestinian from Gaza. Before October 7, 2023, he demonstrated several times against Hamas and for better living conditions in the Gaza Strip. He was arrested and tortured for his protest and then fled to Germany. In an interview with taz in July, Howidy spoke about his resistance against Hamas, his escape and his perception of pro-Palestinian protests around the world.

🐾 Tom Khaled Würdemann is a historian and Middle East scholar. He is currently doing his doctorate on the Palestinian national movement at the Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies as part of the DFG Research Training Group "Ambivalent Enmity". He has also been involved in educational work against racism, anti-Semitism and extremism for many years.

🐾 Konstantin Nowotny, author and taz editor, will be talking to them.