A year ago, the veteran Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was fatally shot while on assignment in the West Bank. Through her fearless reporting on region she had been a household name across the Arab world for decades, and her death was seen as a symbol of the dangerous state of press freedom.
While the killing of Abu Akleh caught the wider world’s attention, it was far from the only news event in the West Bank that day. The Guardian journalist Kaamil Ahmed wanted to pick up the stories that she never got the chance to report on that morning.
He speaks to an activist who watched homes in his community being demolished and the father of a 16-year-old who believes his son was shot just a few hours after Abu Akleh.
Michael Safi hears how how the investigation into her death is progressing, after Israel’s military admitted there was a “high possibility” she was killed by an Israeli soldier.
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
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