The police said on Tuesday that Mr. Ali had received “a number of death threats” in the years before he died. He was seen following Mr. Ali with an automatic handgun before the shooting and fleeing the area afterward. His most famous artistic creation was the refugee child Handala, who has become a symbol of the Palestinian cause. “Things will become normal again when the homeland returns,” Mr. Ali wrote. Some have seen Mr. Ali’s unsolved murder as a poignant symbol of how far the Palestinian national movement remains from its goals.

Source: New York Times August 29, 2017 23:35 UTC