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\u00a0Homeland – News – New York Times<\/p>\n
By Raja Abdulrahim and Ben Hubbard
\nMay 11, 2022
\nUpdated 2:38 p.m. ET
\nJERUSALEM \u2014 Shireen Abu Akleh originally studied to be an architect but could not see a future for herself in the field. So she decided to go into journalism instead, becoming one of the most well-known Palestinian journalists.<\/p>\n
\u201cI chose journalism to be close to the people,\u201d she said in a short reel shared by Al Jazeera soon after she was killed on Wednesday by gunfire in the West Bank. \u201cIt might not be easy to change the reality, but at least I was able to bring their voice to the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
A Palestinian American, Ms. Abu Akleh, 51, was a familiar face on the Al Jazeera network, where she spent 25 years reporting, making her name amid the violence of the Palestinian uprising known as the second intifada, which convulsed Israel and the occupied West Bank beginning in 2000.<\/p>\n
She was shot in the head in the West Bank city of Jenin, Al Jazeera and the Palestinian Health Ministry said, blaming Israeli forces for her death. The Israeli military said on Twitter that \u201cPalestinian armed gunfire\u201d may have been responsible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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