On Land Day, Palestinians in Israel demonstrate on March 30 in Deir Hanna, in the north of the country, to demand an end to the war in Gaza. (Credit: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
Asked about his take on the operation that Hamas and other Palestinian groups conducted a year ago, Moatasem Zedan said, “Not answering this question is in itself an answer. I don’t want to give my opinion on the Oct. 7 [attack].” He preferred to keep his analyses to himself. On the other hand, he still remembers his first reaction perfectly. Zedan, a morning person by nature, was already up on his feet when the news began to flow. In the circulating images, he saw a Palestinian jeep in Sderot. He wasn’t sure exactly what was going on. But he was quick to grasp the scale of the events. “First I looked up my friends on WhatsApp to tell them, ‘Guys, go watch the news! My God, what’s going to fall on us?’” he said. Zedan, who was born in Kafr Manda, an Arab town in the Lower Galilee, now located in Israel, had the same concerns as many...
Asked about his take on the operation that Hamas and other Palestinian groups conducted a year ago, Moatasem Zedan said, “Not answering this question is in itself an answer. I don’t want to give my opinion on the Oct. 7 [attack].” He preferred to keep his analyses to himself. On the other hand, he still remembers his first reaction perfectly. Zedan, a morning person by nature, was already up on his feet when the news began to flow. In the circulating images, he saw a Palestinian jeep in Sderot. He wasn’t sure exactly what was going on. But he was quick to grasp the scale of the events. “First I looked up my friends on WhatsApp to tell them, ‘Guys, go watch the news! My God, what’s going to fall on us?’” he said. Zedan, who was born in Kafr Manda, an Arab town in the Lower Galilee, now located in Israel, had the same...