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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Martin Chulov Middle East correspondent

Shireen Abu Aqleh killing: ‘She was the voice of events in Palestine’

A woman holds a Palestinian flag next to a picture of Shireen Abu Aqleh in the Israeli-occupied West Bank
A woman holds a Palestinian flag next to a picture of Shireen Abu Aqleh in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Wednesday. Photograph: Raneen Sawafta/Reuters

Shireen Abu Aqleh, the Al Jazeera correspondent who has been shot and killed in Jenin in the West Bank, was a veteran observer of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, renowned across the Arab world as an authoritative voice on the region’s most contested story.

The 51-year-old joint Palestinian and US citizen had reported from nearly every flashpoint in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem over three decades, during which she regularly crisscrossed between both sides telling the stories of Palestinians and Israelis from homes, battlegrounds and the drawing rooms of leaders.

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