Sources said Zahar's wife and daughter are in intensive care.

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Mahmoud Zahar, for instance, fondly recalls taking the train from Gaza to his mother's hometown of Ismailiya, on the far bank of the Suez Canal, before Israel's 1967 occupation.

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But Al-Zahar is also misinformed regarding the Israeli position.

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Al-Zahar also made the case for Islamic feminism.

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