Following Hamas’s deadly attack on 7 October 2023, Israel’s military response was, as the Palestinian author and physician Ghada Karmi writes in her piece below, “inevitable”. Ten months on, the scope and ferocity of that military response has stunned the world. In late July, Gaza’s health ministry reported that Israel’s war had killed more than 39,000 people, the majority civilians. A Lancet study published in July suggests that, directly or indirectly, “up to 186,000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza”. Yet these figures don’t begin to encapsulate the scale of the devastation. Below, six leading Palestinian writers, academics and economists reflect on the war in Gaza, its aftermath and the future of a Palestinian state.
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