Ali Kazak, former Palestinian ambassador and representative of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) in Australia, died on May 17 in Thailand, while on his way to Palestine.

Advocacy groups and prominent pro-Palestine figures have paid tribute to Kazak, who was born in Haifa in 1947 and survived the massacres and brutal dispossession that followed the declaration of the Israeli state, growing up in Syria as a Palestinian refugee.

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The Australian Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) honoured Kazak’s “steadfast and unwavering commitment to the fight for Palestinian liberation”, adding:........

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