His death was marked across the world by with an outpouring of art from saddened and enraged political cartoonists many drawing their personal take on al-Hilali's death including Jeff Danziger New York Times Syndicate cartoonist in New York, Stavro Jabro -Lebonon, Cristian Sampaio -Portugal, Butti Manfuelli -Corsica, Avi Katz - Israel, Riber Hansso -Sweden, Saul Cabanillas - Spain, and Michael Kithla and Giorgio Foraltina.
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According to witnesses, he had just drawn a caricature of Muammar Gaddafi on a wall in Benghazi when the bullet hit.
The history of the village goes back to the days of the Banu Hilal tribe, and it is named after the horse of Abu-Zayd al-Hilali.