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Body of Gaza Poet Alareer Finally Laid to Rest

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Culture
February 4, 2025

Today, Palestinians were able to find the body of Dr. Refaat Alareer, who had been buried in a makeshift grave for months, and moved him to a cemetery near his family members in Al-Shujaiya neighborhood, the area where he was born and lived.

On December 6, 2023, Dr. Refaat was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike that deliberately targeted his sister’s home, where he had sought refuge, in Gaza City, killing him along with six other members of his family.

Alareer, the Palestinian poet, writer, and literature professor at the Islamic University of Gaza, who was considered one of the most prominent voices in Gaza speaking out against Israeli crimes, leaves behind a legacy that endures despite his killing.

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Dr. Marwan Asmar holds a PhD from Leeds University and is a freelance writer specializing on the Middle East. He has worked as a journalist since the early 1990s in Jordan and the Gulf countries, and been widely published, including at Albawaba, Gulf News, Al Ghad, World Press Review and others.