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The beloved Gaza novelist killed after fleeing south
24 October 2023 19:12 BST
A week after the war began, the Israeli military warned more than one million Palestinians in north Gaza to leave their homes and head south "for their own safety".
Hundreds of thousands of people did, and among them was Palestinian novelist and poet Heba Abu Nada.
But Gaza's south was no safer than its north, and a week later, the 32-year-old poet was killed in an Israeli strike.
"To God, we in Gaza are either martyrs or witnesses to liberation, and we all wait to see where we will be. We are all awaiting, oh God, your true promise," Abu Nada wrote on 20 October, the day she was killed.
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