![]() We were reporting on the military raids in the occupied West Bank following a wave of violence that killed 13 civilians in Israel between March and April, according to the Israel Security Agency. It was mid April and we were standing on a hilltop overlooking the refugee camp where she would be shot dead in the back of the neck in that palm sized space between her helmet and the collar of her blue PRESS flak jacket on May 11. So, when I saw Shireen a month before she was killed while reporting on an Israeli raid in the Jenin Refugee Camp, I recognised the look in her eyes and the weariness that washed over her face. Though we met only a few times, those common links created a kind of membership to an exclusive club. She and I were both veteran correspondents, close in age and Arab American women. Every day of my recent assignment covering the beat she embodied, that final snapshot of her was lodged in my head like a screensaver. I am haunted by the look in Shireen’s eyes the last time I saw her. Al Jazeera English’s Senior Correspondent recalls the last time she saw Shireen Abu Akleh and what it has been like to cover the investigations into her killing by Israeli forces
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