This article first appeared on our partner site, Independent Arabia
On the 26th of August, I resolved to spend the day with my family, having so often been consumed by work during the war. It is not easy to juggle being a father and a journalist in a war zone. As I joked with my daughter and nudged her to get ready to venture out amid the rubble, hoping that we might find a place where the air was not laced with the smell of gunpowder, the first call came through: Maryam Abu Daqqa had been killed in an Israeli strike on Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis.
