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Palestinian writer and artist Walaa Jumaa al-Ifranji, husband Ahmed Saeed Salama and her sister Shatha were killed at dawn, Wednesday in Israeli shelling targeting a house in Nuseirat camp in central Gaza Strip.
Their bodies were taken to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al Balah amid great sadness from the intellectuals and writers community in the Gaza Strip.
Al-Ifranji began her journey with writing an Arabic novel before moving from writing on paper to itching on stones and wood and chains and rings.
The young novelist was originally from Gaza City and when the war started soon after 7 October, 2023 she and her family were forced to move to the Nuseirat camp.
Before what has become a black day for the people of Gaza, Walaa was working in a shop called “Surprise” that prepares gifts in the upscale, but no more, Al-Rimal neighborhood in the center of Gaza City.
However, like hundreds of thousands of residents of the Gaza Strip, she lost her livelihood due to the consequences of displacement to the areas south of the Gaza Valley as the Israeli army forced the people to keep moving from their destroyed homes.
The Israeli army continues its war on the Strip for the 446th day and which has resulted in the death of 45,338 people and the injury of 107,764 according to the latest statistics published by the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.
