Out of Gaza Jennifer Russell (Translator)

Out of Gaza Jennifer Russell (Translator)At the beginning of the Fifth Gaza War, the Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer defiantly promised that if the Israeli Defence Force attacked his house he would throw my pen in the faces of the soldiers. A few weeks later, Alareer was killed by an Israeli airstrike on the building. Since the outbreak of the Israel Hamas war in October 2023, over 20k Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, almost all of them civilians. Four thousand children were killed in

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about waiting to come in from the cold

/ as I grow older

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crossed swords

behind the hardships of daily life

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