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Mosab Shawer

‘Love of my life’: Shot dead, waiting for her husband in the West Bank

Masalmeh says he sees a lot of his wife in their six-month-old daughter, Ayloul, especially in the way she laughs and smiles [Mosab Shawer/Al Jazeera]

Bahaa Masalmeh was planning to shower his young wife with gifts on her upcoming 21st birthday, which he had been planning for several weeks.

But on January 15, Ahed, a mother of a six-month-old baby daughter, was shot and killed by Israeli forces during a raid into the town of Dura near Hebron in the southern West Bank. She was inside her brother-in-law’s house at the time, watching for her husband’s arrival at a window.

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