Young, bright, Palestinian: the three friends shot in Vermont

Tahseen Ali Ahmad, Kinnan Abdalhamid and Hisham Awartani, all 20, are childhood friends and incredibly tight' - especially now

In Ramallah, in the West Bank, in the spring of 2021, three school friends huddled round their computer screens.

Hisham Awartani, Kinnan Abdalhamid and Tahseen Ali Ahmad had all applied to study at American universities. Responses from the colleges tended to come through by email, usually between midnight and 2am Palestinian time.