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Shirin Abou Aqleh: the Palestinian icon of Al Jazeera

2022-05-12T16:24:43.470Z


Several thousand Palestinians on Thursday paid tribute to one of their own, star journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead during an Israeli military operation in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank.


Shirin "

was the sister of all Palestinians

 ".

The voice choked with tears, his brother, Antoun Abou Aqleh, who arrived in disaster from the United States where he lives, explained by this formula the strong emotion which seized, at the announcement of his death, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians , and beyond the millions of people throughout the Arab world.

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On Thursday, as Israel began to recognize that the shot that killed her in Jenin may have come from within the ranks of its army, her compatriots paid tribute to her.

Her body was taken to her home in the Beit Hanina neighborhood near Jerusalem on the road to Ramallah.

Correspondent of the Qatari television channel Al Jazeera, "

she represented the voice of Palestine

 ", confides by telephone from East Jerusalem Houda Imam, a Palestinian activist who went to meditate on her remains in Beit Hanina.

About ten km away, his portrait crossed out with a black band as a sign of mourning dominated the central Al Manara square...

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Source: lefigaro

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