Gaza City, December 9 (RHC)-- An Israeli airstrike in Gaza has killed the prominent Palestinian academic and activist Refaat Alareer, along with his brother, his sister and her four children. 

Alareer authored dozens of stories and poems about life under Israeli occupation.   

In October, as bombs were falling near his home in Gaza City, Refaat Alareer talked with reporters: “We speak about thousands, hundreds and thousands of Israeli bombs and shells targeting all areas of the Gaza Strip.  The kids can’t sleep.  The kids can’t eat.  The kids can’t even speak.  Most of the time they’re just mute, silent, shaking out of fear, sometimes whimpering because of how close the bombs are wherever you are in Gaza.”