I'm very happy for the second part of tonight's event

to be joined by three extraordinary people.

Ahmed Al-Noak, Yara Eid and Tarek's longer piece, is, I believe, the introduction of your book.

Is that correct?

That's right, yeah.

Very, very interesting and highly pertinent, given the ceasefire.

I'm going to ask each of you a few questions, and I think you're all going to want to feed in and then we'll have a broader conversation.

Ahmed, I want to talk to you. Tell me, tell us all here tonight, what happened to your family in Gaza in October

2023? Thank you very much for having me first.

And I'm glad you asked me this question.

And I know many of our friends here heard this story a hundred times maybe,

but I'm glad you asked it because since that day happened,

I promised myself and I promised the world that I will keep telling the story of my family

every time until the day I die.

And Aaron, it's, I have a very big family in Gaza.

I had a father, a mother, nine, I had eight siblings in Gaza.

Most of them married with lots of children.

We always were very happy and proud that

we are a very big family and they used to enjoy it. I used to love it very much.

And when at the beginning of the genocide, my married sisters chose to come to my family's home.

Why? Because they thought that this home, this area in the Gaza Strip is the safest place they can be.

My three sisters and all of their children, my brothers, my two brothers, my father, all of them were sleeping in my home on the 22nd of October when Israel dropped the bomb killing all of them.

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