Shireen Abu Akleh, 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. Shireen Abu Akleh. “It’s not possible to follow news from the West Bank and not have heard/seen reporting from Shireen. She is a reference in the Arab world. The US ambassador to Israel, Tom Nides, said he was “very sad” to learn of Abu Akleh’s death.

Source: The Guardian May 12, 2022 06:49 UTC