A year one, Shireen Abu Akleh, an Al Jazeera journalist, died on May 11th while covering an Israeli raid on a refugee camp in the north of the occupied West Bank.
A year after an Israeli bullet killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, her West Bank office remains almost untouched, but mourners’ flowers have piled up in an adjacent room.
The Ramallah Street, where the news bureau is located, has been renamed after her. A new museum will soon honor her work and other reporters covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Fellow journalists say they still have not accepted the loss of Abu Akleh, 51, whose many years of fearless reporting had made her a household name across the Arab world.
Abu Akleh died on May 11th, 2022, while covering an Israeli raid in the Jenin refugee camp north of the occupied West Bank.
The army would later admit one of its soldiers likely shot the reporter, who was wearing a helmet and a bulletproof vest marked “Press,” having mistaken her for a militant.
Her killing prompted a global storm of outrage and calls for an international investigation.
The anger flared further when Israeli police attacked mourners and pallbearers at her funeral in east Jerusalem.
Large murals have since been painted in honor of the journalist, including on the concrete wall Israel has built as part of its separation barrier with the West Bank.
Al Jazeera took her case to the International Criminal Court in December.
In the year since her death, Abu Akleh has been memorialized by Palestinians, and the road where the office is located is now named Shireen Abu Akleh Street.
This week, the Committee to Protect Journalists noted that the Israeli military had taken no accountability for killing at least 20 journalists —18 of whom were Palestinian—in the past two decades.
Miroslava Salazar with AFP
