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A year on, Palestinians mourn slain journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
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, and a new museum will soon honour her work and that of 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.
Camera operator Majdi Bannoura, who was with her the day she died, said "despite the passing of a year since her death, I still don't believe that she is gone.
"Sometimes I feel that I'm living in a dream."
Walid al-Omari, the Qatari news channel's bureau chief for Jerusalem and Ramallah, said "Shireen's colleagues and I are unable to separate anything from Shireen's influence.
"So, we have kept the office as it was," he added, his voice breaking.
Abu Akleh died on May 11, 2022 while covering an Israeli raid in the Jenin refugee camp in the 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 honour of the journalist, including on the concrete wall Israel has built as part of its separation barrier with the West Bank.
- 'Evade responsibility' -
Al Jazeera took her case to the International Criminal Court in December.
"We continue to work and to press for the prosecutor and the court to act and take a stand on this case," Omari said.
The Committee to Protect Journalists this week noted the Israeli military had taken no accountability for the killings of at least 20 journalists -- 18 of whom were Palestinian -- in the past two decades.
"The killing of Shireen Abu Akleh and the failure of the military's investigative process to hold anyone accountable is not an isolated case," said CPJ director Robert Mahoney.
He charged that the system "seems fashioned to evade responsibility".
In response to the CPJ report, the Israeli army said it "regrets any harm to civilians during operational activity" and that it considers "the professional work of journalists to be of great importance".
It added that the Israeli army "does not intentionally target noncombatants, and live fire in combat is only used after all other options have been exhausted".
Rodney Dixon, a lawyer appointed by Al Jazeera to take up Abu Akleh's case, has argued there was an attempt by Israel "to completely cover up" the circumstances of her death.
He described Abu Akleh's killing as part of a "systematic and large-scale campaign" against Al Jazeera, noting Israel's bombing of the channel's office in Gaza in 2021.
- 'A huge void' -
In the year since her death, Abu Akleh has been memorialised by Palestinians, and the road where the office is located is now named Shireen Abu Akleh Street.
The cornerstone of a Shireen Abu Akleh Museum for Media will be laid during a ceremony in Ramallah on Thursday, one of a string of commemorative events.
Her brother Anton Abu Akleh said his family were still waiting for justice, speaking at a cultural event on Wednesday in Ramallah.
"During this past year we have gone through several stages, experiences and challenges as we try to obtain Shireen's rights, and achieve justice for her," he told the audience.
Bureau chief Omari said his slain star reporter "was not just a great journalist for Al Jazeera.
"She was a team on her own. It has left a huge void."
B.Finley--AMWN