The journalist Ana Alba (Barcelona, ​​1971) has died of cancer she had suffered for three years. Expert in international conflicts, the reporter worked as a correspondent in the Middle East and in the former Yugoslavia. For the last nine years she has been the correspondent for El Periódico de Cataluña in Israel.

On April 7, Ana Alba was recognized with the Julio Anguita Parrado Prize in its XIII edition, an award presented by the Andalusian Journalists Union in tribute to the EL MUNDO journalist who died in the Iraq war in 2003. The jury highlighted the "rigor, responsibility and commitment to the most vulnerable populations of armed conflicts" that Ana Alba demonstrated during the exercise of her profession.

Many colleagues of the deceased have shown their condolences with messages on social networks.

Ana Alba began working as a journalist in the Balkans, in the post-war years in Bosnia and the war in Kosovo. Alba was marked by that conflict and her commitment to the Balkans remained over time. He traveled to that area on many occasions afterwards to tell about the aftermath of that war, the impact on civilian populations and the drama of the millions of victims left by that conflict.

The journalist developed her professional career as a freelance , as well as in the newspaper Avui and El Periódico de Catalunya . For these media, he has carried out informative works such as the coverage of the Iraq war, the demonstrations that ended the fall of Slobodan Milosevic in Serbia and the so-called green revolution that followed the presidential elections in Iran in 2009.

Since 2011 she has been doing her work in Israel and Palestine, and is one of the Spanish journalists who has lived in Jerusalem the longest . At this time it covered the two wars in Gaza, in 2012 and in 2014.

Her latest work, carried out jointly with the also journalist Beatriz Lecumberri , is the documentary Condemned in Gaza , which explores the situation of women in the Gaza Strip suffering from cancer and who, due to the Israeli blockade, cannot travel nor can they receive the treatment they need

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