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Shireen Abu Akleh

شيرين أبو عاقلة

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Jerusalem

Palestinian-American journalist (1971–2022), Al Jazeera's best-known field correspondent in the Palestinian territories for 25 years. Born in Jerusalem to a Melkite Greek Catholic family from Bethlehem, she was shot and killed in Jenin on 11 May 2022 while covering an Israeli raid wearing a press vest; investigations by the UN, the US and major news organisations attributed the fatal fire to Israeli forces.

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Journalist
Region
Levant & Iraq
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The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Abdul Azeez Madani · Abdullah Ahmad Badawi · Abdullah Omar Nasseef · Abu Ishaq Al-Heweny · Ali Hassan Mwinyi

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Jerusalem

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Place in the story

    Christian (documented)

    Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

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    Modern Islam BrowserFigures of the last fifty years2022

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    Jerusalem

    People and things also explored

    Masjid Al-Aqsa· al-Haram al-Sharif (the Temple Mount esplanade)· Dome of the Rock· Mosque of Omar· The Western Wall (Buraq Wall)· Arson at al-Aqsa Mosque (1969)· Al-Sakhawi's Syrian rihla: Aleppo, Damascus, Jerusalem, c. 873· Atsiz ibn Uwaq's campaign against Syria

    Sources

    • Shireen Abu Akleh — English Wikipedia
    • Shireen Abu Akleh — Arabic Wikipedia
    • Shireen Abu Akleh — Wikidata
    • Shireen Abu Akleh's funeral — Catholic News Service, 2022
    Cite this page

    islam.museum contributors. “Shireen Abu Akleh”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/shireen-abu-akleh/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-31.

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