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Refaat Alareer
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Poet, professor of English literature at the Islamic University of Gaza, editor of 'Gaza Writes Back'
Refaat Alareer, 44, was killed with his brother, his sister and four of her children in an Israeli airstrike on his sister's home, a day after a threatening phone call prompted him to leave the shelter where he had been staying; his final poem, 'If I Must Die,' spread across the world after his death.
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