{"id":2268,"date":"2024-01-24T11:59:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T11:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/24\/rip-the-uncle-i-never-knew-a-poet-just-like-me-and-killed-by-an-israeli-bomb-tamer-nafar\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T11:59:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T11:59:59","slug":"rip-the-uncle-i-never-knew-a-poet-just-like-me-and-killed-by-an-israeli-bomb-tamer-nafar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/24\/rip-the-uncle-i-never-knew-a-poet-just-like-me-and-killed-by-an-israeli-bomb-tamer-nafar\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP the uncle I never knew: a poet, just like me, and killed by an Israeli bomb | Tamer Nafar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I missed my chance to talk to him \u2013 but what would I say now? There are no words for my sorrow at what Palestine has lost<\/p>\n<p>On 7 December, a dark cloud floated across my computer screen: a photograph of a man\u2019s face. I wouldn\u2019t have noticed it if it didn\u2019t look like me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn Israeli missile kills Palestinian poet and author <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PENamerica\/status\/1735804111252033979\">Saleem Al-Naffar<\/a> and his family members in their home in Gaza,\u201d I read on <a href=\"https:\/\/ar.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1\">Arabic Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tamer Nafar is a Palestinian rapper, actor, writer and columnist based in Lod<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/letters\">letters<\/a> section, please <a href=\"mailto:mailto:guardian.letters@theguardian.com?body=Please%20include%20your%20name,%20full%20postal%20address%20and%20phone%20number%20underneath%20your%20letter.%20Letters%20are%20usually%20published%20with%20the%20author%E2%80%99s%20name%20and%20city\/town\/village.%20The%20rest%20of%20the%20information%20is%20for%20verification%20only%20and%20to%20contact%20you%20if%20your%20letter%20is%20used.\">click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/jan\/24\/poetry-israel-bomb-palestine\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I missed my chance to talk to him \u2013 but what would I say now? There are no words for my sorrow at what Palestine has lost On 7 December, a dark cloud floated across my computer screen: a photograph of a man\u2019s face. I wouldn\u2019t have noticed it if it didn\u2019t look like me. &#8230; <a title=\"RIP the uncle I never knew: a poet, just like me, and killed by an Israeli bomb | Tamer Nafar\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/24\/rip-the-uncle-i-never-knew-a-poet-just-like-me-and-killed-by-an-israeli-bomb-tamer-nafar\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about RIP the uncle I never knew: a poet, just like me, and killed by an Israeli bomb | Tamer Nafar\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}