Prominent writer and scholar Refaat Alareer killed in Israeli air strike

Tributes are pouring in for Refaat Alareer, a prominent writer and scholar in Gaza, who was killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City. Regarded as the leader of a new generation of writers in Gaza, Refaat was mentor to writers and poets and a professor of literature and creative writing at the Islamic University in Gaza.

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