Months After Israel Killed Poet Refaat Alareer, His Daughter & Infant Grandson Die in Gaza Airstrike

[Uncle Joe]

An Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on Friday killed the eldest daughter and the infant grandson of the prominent Palestinian poet and past Democracy Now! guest Refaat Alareer, who himself was killed in an Israeli airstrike in December. Shaima Refaat Alareer was killed along with her husband and 2-month-old son while sheltering in the building of international relief charity Global Communities. Shaima had recently lamented on Facebook that her father never got to meet his grandson, writing, "I never imagined that I would lose you early even before you see him." "Why is the state of Israel and its military targeting the families and relatives of those it has already assassinated and murdered?" asks Jehad Abusalim, a scholar, policy analyst and friend of Refaat Alareer and his family. "Israel seeks to eradicate, to destroy the social environment that fosters resistance and defiance. This environment produced figures like Refaat."

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[tornado34jh]

1. Gee, you fucking wonder why people are protesting in the first place

It's stuff like this that fuels the fire to it. I think this still would have happened even if Hamas wasn't even in the picture.

[speak easy]

2. Refaat Alareer: The Hamas October 7 attack was "legitimate and moral."

In an interview with the BBC in the hours after Hamas's 7 October attack on Israel, Alareer caused widespread offence by calling it "legitimate and moral". He said it was "exactly like the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising".

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was a revolt that took place in German-occupied Poland in 1943 and saw Jews use weapons smuggled into the ghetto to try to resist Nazi efforts to transport people to the extermination camps.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67656787

[ExciteBike66]

3. So bomb his two year old grandson?