While Alareer’s death is being mourned among Palestinians, some of his comments have caused offense. In a BBC interview he described the October 7 attacks as “a pre-emptive attack by Palestinian resistance” that was “legitimate and moral.”
Refaat Alareer (left) sits with his friends and colleagues, Yousef Aljamal (center) and Jehad Abusalim (right), on the Staten Island Ferry in New York during a book tour in 2014.
https://www.bark.com/en/gb/company/op-opsssitecom---/ZVjEX/ Borrell's remarks also follow the announcement of a new visa policy by the United States targeting the same violent individuals. “I am about 700 meters away from the clashes and can hear screams from where I am," he said. Ra Page, 51, is a publisher and founder of Comma Press, in Manchester, England. He worked with Alareer on numerous literary projects and workshops over the years. They met in person in Gaza City, in August 2022. Rawan Yaghi, who was taught by Alareer and is now a 30-year-old writer based in Canada, said he was a “leader of literary resistance.” Israel’s military has a significant presence in Gaza's largest refugee camp where heavy fighting and dozens of casualties have been reported, the director general of the Ministry of Health in Gaza told CNN. “Today, I saw nearly 30 bodies in the streets surrounding us where we have opened a medical point in northern Jabalya,” he said.
https://medium.com/@dukmxlzuq Born in Shajaiya, in the eastern part of Gaza City, he said his family was forced to relocate to the Tel-al-Hawa area of Gaza City, after their home was destroyed by Israeli bombardment during the 2014 war that also claimed his younger brother Hamada, who was 27 when he was killed. The sounds of strikes hitting a building feel as though “the whole earth reverberates,” he said. He had written a poem anticipating that he might be killed, titled “If I must die.” In recent days, between 60 and 100 trucks have been using Rafah crossing to enter Gaza — a volume that the United Nations and other aid agencies say is far too little to mitigate the territory’s humanitarian crisis.
