Opinion: Israel's killing of Palestinian intellectual leaders is an incalculable loss

 Throughout the past 11 months of Israel’s war on Gaza, the Israeli army has killed scores of Palestinian scientists, academics and artists, along with their families.

Many have been targeted in air assaults, often without warning. Some were crushed to death under debris. Israel’s relentless strikes have also killed hundreds of teachers and thousands of students while decimating Gaza’s university infrastructure. 

Such violence is not new. The Israeli military has a long and bloody history of targeting Palestinian cultural life. 

Last month marked the anniversary of the death of one of the pioneers of Palestinian literature, Ghassan Kanafani, who was killed more than half a century ago by a Mossad-planted car bomb in Beirut.

READ MORE: Israel's killing of Palestinian intellectual leaders is an incalculable loss, opinion by Asem al-Jerjawi