Amman

- The legacy of the martyr Shireen Abu Aqleh is beyond absence, as she left a clear imprint on our souls, as she was present in the home of each of us.

News like a thunderbolt fell on the ears of colleagues and professors of Abu Aqila at the University of Yarmouk in Jordan, who saw in her a shining star in the media sky.

Yes, the icon of Palestine with a warm voice and a bold word has passed away, but she is present in the hearts of all who knew her.

Al Jazeera Net interviewed colleagues and professors Shirin, from the Jordanian Yarmouk University, who are accustomed to her presence on Al Jazeera screen, as words betray them, unable to express, and fill their souls with grief and oppression from the oppression of the occupation, but what comforts them is that Shirin was absent physically, but her word remained, and her approach became guided. Taught and lead by example.

The martyr Sherine formed a case

The captain of the Jordanian Journalists Syndicate, Rakan Al-Saeedh, who is a colleague of the martyr Sherine at the university level, tells Al Jazeera Net, "We studied at the Faculty of Media for a while, she graduated shortly before me, and during the university period she was not an ordinary girl, and she did not live university life as any student or student; on the contrary, We always felt that she was an unusually haunted person, and therefore university life for her was almost unimportant or non-existent.

Al-Saeeda explains, "Sherine had good relations with her colleagues... A person of high morals, educated, had a high level of awareness, was friendly, and felt that the media profession was her weapon of struggle in exposing injustice and exposing the occupation, and transmitting the crimes and atrocities it practices to the whole world."

He adds, "Through the university's experience, we expected that it would have a distinguished future."

Her keenness, professional commitment and commitment to struggle led her to pay with her life for her convictions and mission, as if her context from the university days until now indicates that she is going in this direction.

Al-Saeeda: Through the university's experience, we expected that our colleague Sherine Abu Aqleh would have a distinguished future (Al-Jazeera)

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"Sherine today has become an icon, despite the sadness and pain over her loss. On the other hand, we are very proud of her, her commitment and her testimony, and we are proud of this global sympathy for her, even in her death, which was a case. I do not think that there is a journalist in the world who received this honor... and this funeral... and this sympathy." With this condemnation..and all the details that accompanied her martyrdom..and this is an indication that Shireen was able to leave a very big imprint,” Al-Saeedh says.

He added, "We used to follow Sherine on Al Jazeera. We see her boldness, enthusiasm and determination. She is present in the hot spots that convey to the world the crimes of the occupation, so we always felt that she was a project of a martyr expected at any moment.. And she was talking about this with her publications and interviews.. And Palestine deserves to be us." All projects are martyrs for her."

Natural predisposition to success

The former head of the Department of Journalism and Media at Yarmouk University, Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Shalabiya, says of his student, “Sherine Abu Aqleh was one of the promising students, as was her colleague Guevara Al-Budairi. It was clear that they had a natural willingness to be successful practicing journalists, through their performance in the college, their commitment, perseverance and literature. Jem".

Dr. Shalabiya adds, "The College of Media does not graduate a successful media person if he does not have a real willingness to become a media person. We are working to develop the skills to be successful practicing media professionals in the future."

He continues: The two colleagues joined and graduated from Yarmouk University in the 1990s, and their practical production was an indication that they were two promising students, along with colleagues who graduated from the university, and they carry brilliant names in the local and Arab media.

Al-Shaqran: At the university, Sherine was diligent and active in performing her theoretical and practical academic duties (Al-Jazeera)

A torch of activity in "Yarmouk"

The martyr's colleague, editor-in-chief of the Jordanian Al-Rai newspaper, Dr. Khaled Al-Shaqran, said, "Shireen was diligent and a spark of activity by performing her theoretical and practical academic duties. She was keen to become a journalist who would serve her cause and her country...she was everywhere in Palestine, she played her role as a Palestinian militant journalist reporting the violations of the occupier, To be liquidated in broad daylight.

He added, "The killer knew who this media person was, and how she reveals the facts and broadcasts them in her voice, which always resonates with us when watching Al-Jazeera..(Shereen Abu Aqila was with you from Palestine)."

Al-Shaqran continues, Sherine went out to cover the events of Jenin camp in the early morning as usual, and this indicates the journalistic sense of the media, and she was martyred while performing her media message... saying: "Sherine represents me and represents every Palestinian and Arab journalist who believes in the cause and the Palestinian right, and the right of man to live with dignity."

We watered the truth, and we watered it with tears of loss

Director of Public Relations at the King Hussein Cancer Center Hanan Mohieldin, who was a colleague of the martyr at the university, says I still remember Shirin in the first year at the Faculty of Journalism and Media at Yarmouk University, and we met for a requirement of journalism, and she said in the lecture that she was studying engineering at University of Science and Technology and transferred to the Faculty of Journalism because of her love and passion.

She explains, "Sherine, as I knew her in 1989, did not write me to be her friend, but I respected her, for she was distinguished, and intelligent, who stood at every note and initiated the question. She used to ask the teacher many questions in her venerable voice, which we are accustomed to in her reports. Sober, calm and intelligent."

And she added, "Blessed are our righteous martyrs. It is an honor for us, to mourn the most beautiful martyrs, Shirin, the rose that the truth watered us, and we drank her with tears of loss and farewell, terrified of her early departure... God rest her soul."

Hijab: Sherine Abu Aqleh is a medal that we put on our chest on our long path towards fighting and eliminating the occupation (Reuters)

The journalist in Palestine is a martyrdom project

Academician at Middle East University Ezzat Hijab mourns Sherine, saying: "Sherine was one of my students at Yarmouk University/Journalism Department, and we kept in touch with my family after graduation, and she visited me in Amman."

He added, "We have always been talking about the message that the journalist carries, and that the journalist in Palestine is a martyrdom project like any other fighter, who goes out and knows that martyrdom will be his way, and Sherine is a very professional, who reported what is happening in Palestine and informed the world about the racism and brutality perpetrated by an army occupation in general.

"May God have mercy on her, and may God give patience to her family and relatives.. my condolences to the entire journalistic family. It is difficult to lose a dear, friend and colleague in the profession, but this is the testimony.. It is a medal that we all place on our chest on our long path towards fighting and eliminating the occupation," says the academic. a barrier.

The moment of the assassination of the martyr Sherine Abu Aqleh (left) and next to her, the Palestinian media, Shatha Hanaisheh (Al Jazeera)

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In inspiring lamentations, the director of an international school for the British and American program, Tamara Duke, (colleague of the martyr), says: The fellowship in the Department of Journalism and Media brought us together.

She continues: I was pleased when she asked me to meet to share with her the reasons for my academic excellence in the department, to publish a press article in our student press (Yarmouk press). Her method made me feel comfortable and relaxed in conversation, and her questions hit the target, and she made you feel at the same time that you have to arrange Your ideas and priorities.

The martyr mourns by saying: “My dear, you were a source of inspiration and pride for everyone who knew you in our department and university, and I will not forget the ringing of joy and the sound of the words of Dr. Muhammad Al-Mohtaseb as he gives us good news that you applied to work at Al Jazeera Media Office, and the feeling of pride and optimism that you possessed at that time, I lived an icon of pride and dignity and you will remain so, Shahid.” Right and Duty.

Active in the press department

The journalist, Khitam al-Fakhouri, talks about her fellowship with the martyr, saying: "Sherine - may God have mercy on her - is an excellent and wonderful human being, student and journalist editor... I am afraid that we will not give her her right while we describe her. With the engineering major, which she first accepted at the University of Science and Technology, to move to the major that she likes and desires, and this is all for the sake of the Palestinian cause, because she is the daughter of Palestine, and here she is rising on the land of Palestine, and her share is within her work while she performs the national duty that she always loves and sacrifices for him ...congratulations to her certification."

Colleague media people inherit the martyr through the communication sites

Since the announcement of the "breaking news" of the martyrdom of colleague Sherine Abu Aqleh by the occupation's bullet, sadness has pervaded social media platforms, and many of her colleagues in the media and academics rushed to express their pain and extreme anger over this tragedy that inflamed the hearts of the whole world.

In a rare photo published of the martyr of truth and journalism, the journalist and media figure Shireen Abu Aqleh (the second in the first grade - standing) showed her school days in the Department of Journalism and Media at Yarmouk University, accompanied by a number of professors and students of the department in the early nineties, including Dr. Muhammad Al-Sharida and Dr. Ziad Al-Rifai, and Dr. Mahmoud Shelbaya, and the journalists Hanan Al-Kiswani, Sawsan Al-Salahat, Hanadi Saqf Al-Hait, Maher Abu Tair, Khaled Al-Kasasbeh, Nasser Qamish, and Nashat Al-Halabi.

And her teacher, Dr. Muhammad Najib Al-Sarayrah, inherited it on his page.

Jordanian journalist Bassam Al-Badarin asked which one is on the way to the other: Sherine or Jenin?

Yarmouk University had mourned the media colleague Shireen Abu Aqleh, who was martyred last Wednesday morning by the Israeli occupation forces' bullets while working as a journalist in Jenin camp.

And the late martyr Abu Aqila is a graduate of the Department of Journalism and Media, with a minor in political science, from the Faculty of Arts at Yarmouk University in 1991.

Yarmouk University also organized a sit-down to denounce the assassination of its media graduate, Shireen Abu Aqleh, in front of the College of Information building, in which the university president, Dr. Al Jazeera News.

From the stand of Yarmouk University to condemn the assassination of its graduate, fellow media associate, Sherine Abu Akleh (university website)

Massad said, during the sit-in, that Yarmouk University stands together today to have mercy on the soul of the media martyr, Sherine Abu Akleh, noting that "when we remember Sherine, we remember Palestine west of the river," and said that "Sherine paid her life for her media stance, which we cherish and are proud of. When We remember Shirin, we also remember Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa, and the people who resist occupation and tyranny.

Massad had mercy on Shirin's soul and the souls of all those who died defending Arab causes.