At that point, Alastair did not know whether Luke had survived.
A university has renamed one of its buildings in honour of the late poet and activist Benjamin Zephaniah.Zephaniah, from Handsworth in Birmingham, was a Brummie legend whose career spanned poetry, literature, music and acting.
Birmingham City University (BCU) has now renamed a four-storey building, formerly known as University House, as the Benjamin Zephaniah Building.BCU Vice Chancellor David Mba said Zephaniah had strived to "give a voice to the voiceless" and to show that education must be inclusive.Zephaniah, the son of a Barbadian postman and a Jamaican nurse, was dyslexic and unable to read or write when he left school aged 13.
Yet he went on to have a career that included performing dub poetry, writing novels and children's books, and appearing in the BBC series Peaky Blinders.BCU awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2005.
Zephaniah died eight weeks after being diagnosed with a brain tumour, sparking tributes across his home city that have so far included
The Windrush National Organisation also paid tribute to the poet, who spent his final years in Moulton Chapel, near Spalding, Lincolnshire."The war has been very tough for her," Enas tells the BBC. "She wasn't gaining any weight, and she would get sick so easily."
Niveen's only chance to survive was to receive urgent care outside Gaza. And in early March, Jordan made that possible.As a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel held, 29 sick Gazan children, including Niveen, were evacuated to Jordan to receive treatment in the country's hospitals. Her mother and older sister were brought out with her.
They were the first children evacuated to Jordan after King Abdullah announced plans to treat 2,000 sick Gazan children in hospitals there during a visit to the US the previous month. These evacuations were co-ordinated with the Israeli authorities who do background checks on the parents travelling with their children.Doctors in Jordan performed successful open-heart surgery on Niveen, and she was slowly beginning to recover.