RIP Shireen Abu Akleh (shot and killed on May 11, 2022, while covering an Israel Defense Forces raid on the West Bank city of Jenin.)
Shireen Abu Akleh
(January 3, 1971 – May 11, 2022)
Shireen Abu Akleh was born in 1971 in Jerusalem; her family were Catholic Arab Palestinian Christians from Bethlehem.
She was a Palestinian-American journalist who worked as a reporter for the Arabic-language channel of Al Jazeera for 25 years, and was a household name across the Middle East for her decades of reporting in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories. She was shot and killed on May 11, 2022, while covering an Israel Defense Forces raid on the West Bank city of Jenin.