Out of Gaza : new Palestinian poetry

"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. In the first three months of the fighting, over 27k Palestinians were killed in Gaza, almost all of them civilians. Four thousand children were killed in the first few...