Jamal Khalifeh, Syria

Jamal Khalifeh died on April 1, 2015 in Yarmouk Camp, a district of Damascus that is home to the largest community of Palestinian refugees in Syria, when he was hit in the head by shrapnel while covering clashes between militants from the Islamic State group and local militia. Khalifeh, a Palestinian, mainly worked with Palestinian news website Ajras al-Awdah.

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