BANDE DE GAZA, Territoires palestiniens, Dec 8 (AFP): The Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer, one of the leaders of a young generation of authors in Gaza who chose to write in English to tell their stories, was killed in an Israeli strike, his friends said overnight Thursday.
"My heart is broken, my friend and colleague Refaat Alareer was killed with his family a few minutes ago," wrote his friend, the Gazan poet Mosab Abu Toha, on Facebook.
"I don't want to believe this. We both loved to pick strawberries together."
Israel had conducted further raids on Thursday evening in the north of the Gaza Strip, according to Hamas authorities.
Alareer had said a few days after Israel began its ground offensive in October that he refused to leave northern Gaza, the epicentre of the fighting at the time.
Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer killed in Gaza strike
FE Team | Published: December 08, 2023 23:52:13
Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer killed in Gaza strike
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