Israel’s prime minister stood before the press and declared that there is no hunger in Gaza. But inside the territory, doctors and aid workers were seeing something far different — children arriving daily at hospitals skeletal, starving and sometimes already dead.
With meticulous reporting, fact-checking and triple-checking, Mariam Dagga and Lee Keath worked to understand how and why malnourished children continued to arrive at one of Gaza’s hospitals, on the edge of life. They documented their findings through firsthand accounts, interviews with health officials and humanitarian organizations, and verification of conditions inside the hospital.
Dagga and Keath worked closely with Top Stories Editor Brad Foss and the AP Standards team from inception to publication to ensure the highest accuracy in reporting. The result: a deeply reported and powerfully presented piece that confronted a major public denial with indisputable facts on the ground.
Judges concurred with the nominator’s comments that the resulting text story and visuals were a strong example of AP’s facts-first approach to reporting — a demonstration of rigorous verification and accountability applied to all sides.
For notable all-formats storytelling, Lee Keath and Mariam Dagga win this week’s first Best of the Week.
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