RIP the uncle I never knew: a poet, just like me, and killed by an Israeli bomb | Tamer Nafar

I missed my chance to talk to him - but what would I say now? There are no words for my sorrow at what Palestine has lost

On 7 December, a dark cloud floated across my computer screen: a photograph of a man's face. I wouldn't have noticed it if it didn't look like me.

An Israeli missile kills Palestinian poet and author Saleem Al-Naffar and his family members in their home in Gaza," I read on Arabic Wikipedia.

Tamer Nafar is a Palestinian rapper, actor, writer and columnist based in Lod

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