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Date(s) - Saturday, December 14, 2024
10:00 am - 11:30 am
More than a year after the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza shows no sign of letting up, even as the conflict has now spread to Lebanon and beyond. The war on Gaza has killed at least 43,000 people, forcibly displaced nearly all of Gaza’s 2.3 million inhabitants, and reduced most of the coastal enclave to rubble, while starvation and disease continue to spread at an alarming rate. The conflict is already the deadliest moment in Palestinian history and the most destructive episode in the century-old conflict in Israel-Palestine. Why have U.S.-backed ceasefire efforts continued to fail? What future is there for Gaza and its devastated population? What are the long-term repercussions of the current Gaza catastrophe for Israeli security, Palestinian self-determination, and a peaceful settlement between Palestinians and Israelis?
Khaled Elgindy is director of the Middle East Institute’s Program on Palestine and Palestinian-Israeli Affairs and adjunct instructor in Arab Studies at Georgetown University. He is the author of the 2019 book, Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians, from Balfour to Trump (Brookings Institution Press). Elgindy previously served as a resident scholar in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution from 2010 through 2018. Prior to arriving at Brookings, he served as an adviser to the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah on permanent status negotiations with Israel from 2004 to 2009, and was a key participant in the Annapolis negotiations of 2007-08.
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