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‘She lived her whole life for her people’
Earlier this week St Bride’s church in London saw a memorial service to Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, killed by a bullet to the head by Israeli forces on the West Bank. LOUISE RAW reports from a moving and poignant event

“THIS is a sad, proud day …”

The rector of St Bride’s church on Fleet Street, traditionally the “journalists’ church,” summed up the emotions of everyone who had gathered there on Tuesday morning. 

We were there to mourn, and also celebrate, Shireen Abu Akleh, the Palestinian-American journalist shot dead on the West Bank on May 11. 

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