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'Icon of resilience': Palestinian activist Rifqa al-Kurd dies aged 103

Kurd led a campaign for over a decade against house evictions in occupied East Jerusalem. The woman hailed as a symbol of the Palestinian struggle was first expelled by Zionist forces in the 1948 Nakba
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