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.
“There is no food, or water, or medicine there — where approximately 250 people are still trapped inside. Anyone who tries to leave the hospital is shot at,” he said.
https://medium.com/@straystorm Leaders from 4 European Union countries call on EU Council chief to discuss Gaza ceasefire at summit From CNN’s James Frater and Niamh Kennedy in London Alareer was a “towering figure in Palestinian society,” said Abusalim, the writer and friend based in Washington, DC. A White House spokesperson declined to comment. The sounds of strikes hitting a building feel as though “the whole earth reverberates,” he said. “The way things usually start is complete fear in the first couple of days,” he said. “This turns into numbness later on, complete indifference, complete submission. He later accused
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