Remembering a Palestinian scholar and his family, slain by Israel, with Yousef M. Aljamal

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We hear from Yousef M. Aljamal, who spoke to us from Turkey.

Yousef is a writer, translator and scholar who is a regular contributor to The Electronic Intifada. His family is in Nuseirat refugee camp, in the middle of the Gaza Strip.

“My family is lucky enough because they did not have to move south,” Yousef told us.

“But at the same time, they have multiple people from the south itself who had to evacuate their houses and leave either because of very close bombardment or because their own houses were bombed – such as the house of my father’s cousins, where nine people were killed. My family is lucky because they have flour. They got a sack of flour today. They were very happy that they finally got it,” he said.

Yousef talks about his friend, Raed Qaddoura, who was a promising young academic and a contributor to The Electronic Intifada. Qaddoura was killed on Sunday along with nearly 30 members of his family including his two newborn twins.

“His wife just gave birth two weeks ago. She had to [have] a cesarean surgery without anesthesia because of the lack of anesthesia at Gaza’s hospitals,” he explained.

“And she survived that – she gave birth to beautiful twins, two daughters, and Israel bombed their house. Almost everyone in the house was killed. Twenty-nine people were killed, including Raed, his newborn daughters, his son and his other daughter – a total of four children.”

His wife survived, but is in critical condition, Yousef said.

"He was a person with a sense of humor. He was very kind, he would help young people, students especially, [who] moved to Malaysia from Gaza – he would take them around and register for them, trying to help them to start their lives."

Raed translated a book on Palestinian political prisoners, Yousef said. "But unfortunately, his life was cut short."

"Israel’s war on Palestinian academics and young intellectuals is part and parcel of this genocide, because a lot of these young academics and researchers and young people on social media [are] telling their story to the outside world, and Israel is trying to silence them,” Yousef remarked.

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