Today, the Palestinian poet Haroon Hashem Rashid died at the age of 93, in which he enriched Arab poetry, the Palestinian cause and the right of return.
The late poet was born in Gaza City in 1927 AD, and he was one of the "poets of the Nakba" or "poets of return" and wrote since the fifties poems singing for the Palestinian revolution and the right of return, and the Lebanese Fayrouz sang his words in which he said:
We will return to our days ... and drown in the warmth of semen
We will come back no matter how long the time passes ... and the distance between us
In the heart of the hey do not throw ... on the path of our return frail
Tomorrow we have to come back ... Bird shelves and we are here
Rashid studied in Gaza schools and obtained a certificate of higher teachers. He was a teacher and head of the Voice of Arab Radio office in Gaza, worked in the office of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Cairo and supervised its media in the Gaza Strip before the setback, and a representative and delegate of Palestine in the permanent committees of the League of Arab States for 30 years.
In addition to his poems, Rashid was a journalist and editor who contributed to the issuance of Arab newspapers in Gaza after the Palestinian catastrophe, and published for him 20 books, including "Several Strangers", "Land of Revolutions", "Fedayeen", "Psalms of Earth and Blood", "Diaries of Resilience and Sorrow" and "The Revolution of Stones", in addition to the novel "Years of Doom" and a poetry play called "Birds of Thorns".
After the invasion of Gaza in 1967, Rashid was forced to leave, and he moved to Cairo, where he published most of his poetic and literary works, dealing with the tragedy of Palestine and displacement, and the Palestinian leader Khalil Al-Wazir called him the "poet of the revolution."