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Refaat Alareer, professor and founder of ‘We Are Not Numbers’, killed by Israeli forces

7 December 2023 21:03 GMT

Refaat Alareer, one of the founders of the We Are Not Numbers project and professor at the Islamic University of Gaza, was killed by Israeli forces, his friend announced on Thursday.

We Are Not Numbers is an initiative of the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, and pairs Palestinian writers with mentors to write the stories “behind the numbers of victims”.

“[Alareer] authored many books and wrote tens of stories about Gaza. Refaat’s assassination is tragic, painful and outrageous. It is a huge loss,” his friend and We Are Not Numbers co-founder, Ahmed Alnaouq, wrote on X.