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Fed up with the constant news from Gaza, Salah Khubieh, after months of frustration, woke up one morning this past July and called his friend and business partner, Musa Ciçek, before heading to their restaurant. “Take the ladder with you,” he told him over the phone. When they met, Salah explained they would take down the restaurant sign and replace it with a new one. “From now on, we will rename this place ‘7 October,’” Salah said. The name is a clear reference to the beginning of the conflict in Gaza, “a memorial of the genocide that’s been unfolding before our eyes for almost a year now,” S…

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