Oct 5, 2025
âMy poems are part of my fleshâ: Palestinian poet Batool Abu Akleen on life in Gaza | Poetry
Batool Abu Akleen was having lunch in the seaside apartment that has become the latest refuge for her family of seven, when a missile struck a nearby cafe. It was the last day of June, an ordinary Monday in Gaza City. âI was holding a falafel wrap and looking out of the window, and the window shook,â she says. Within an instant, dozens of men, women and children were dead, in an atrocity that wasâŚ
