Israeli police clashed with Palestinian mourners packed across the coffin of killed Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh initially of her funeral procession in Jerusalem on Friday.
Masked cops confronted scores of flag-waving and chanting Palestinians within the compound of St. Joseph’s Hospital in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, tv footage confirmed.
Officers then charged the group and at one level the group carrying her coffin backed in opposition to a wall and nearly dropped the casket, recovering it simply earlier than one finish hit the bottom.
Family and pals carry the coffin of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, May 13, 2022. (REUTERS)
The violent scenes underlined the rising anger over Abu Akleh’s killing which has threatened so as to add additional gasoline to an already raging battle.
Abu Akleh, who had lined Palestinian affairs and the Middle East for greater than twenty years, was shot whereas reporting on an Israeli raid within the occupied West Bank on Wednesday.
Palestinian authorities described Abu Akleh’s killing as an assassination by Israeli forces. Israel’s authorities initially recommended Palestinian fireplace might need been accountable, however officers have additionally mentioned they might not rule out it was Israeli gunfire that killed her.
One of essentially the most unbelievable issues I’ve ever seen! Even in dying Shireen Abu Akleh is attacked by Israeli forces. Police assault pallbearers carrying the coffin of a journalist who was shot within the face by Israeli troopers. Why? Because the coffin is draped within the Palestinian flag pic.twitter.com/zr4kNbQLe3
— Hind Hassan (@HindHassanInformation) May 13, 2022
On Friday, Israeli police mentioned the group of Palestinians they described as rioters had begun throwing stones within the hospital compound. “The policemen were forced to act,” they added. There was no speedy remark from Palestinian authorities.
A couple of minutes later, Abu Akleh’s coffin was positioned in a car that headed towards the Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Virgin in Jerusalem’s Walled Old City, the place the ceremony proceeded peacefully.
Investigations and raids
The Israeli navy mentioned on Friday that its preliminary investigation “concluded that it isn’t doable to unequivocally decide the supply of the gunfire which hit and killed Ms. Abu Akleh.”
The inquiry has raised two potentialities, the navy mentioned in a press release. The first, that Abu Akleh was hit by Palestinian militants who fired dozens of bullets towards Israeli navy autos, “which can also be the path the place Ms. Abu Akleh was”.
The second, that an Israeli soldier returning fireplace from a jeep towards a gunman had inadvertently hit her. The car was round 200 meters from Abu Akleh, the navy mentioned.
Israeli forces on Friday resumed raids on the outskirts of Jenin, the place Abu Akleh was killed.
At least 13 individuals had been wounded, the Palestinian Health Ministry mentioned. The navy mentioned that an Israeli police officer had been critically injured in what it mentioned was counter-terrorism exercise.
The Jenin Brigade, an armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group, mentioned its fighters had been partaking in armed clashes with Israeli forces in Jenin and residents mentioned the Israeli forces arrested a militant from the Islamic Jihad Group.
Abu Akleh’s dying has drawn widespread condemnation. Video footage from the moments after she was shot confirmed Abu Akleh, 51, carrying a blue vest marked “Press”.
A lady mourns throughout the funeral of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh. (REUTERS)
At least two of her colleagues who had been along with her mentioned that they’d come underneath Israeli sniper fireplace and that they weren’t near militants.
Israel, which has voiced remorse at Abu Akleh’s dying has proposed a joint investigation with the Palestinians, asking them to offer the bullet for examination.
The Palestinians have rejected the Israeli request. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday mentioned Israel was totally accountable and known as for a world investigation.
Family and pals carry the coffin of Shireen Abu Akleh, throughout her funeral in Jerusalem. (REUTERS)
Israel has stepped up raids amid lethal assaults in Israel. Since March, Palestinians and members of Israel’s Arab minority have killed 18 individuals, together with three cops and a safety guard, in assaults in Israel and the West Bank which have largely focused civilians.
Some of the assailants have come from the Jenin space. The Israeli arrest raids within the West Bank have usually sparked clashes and have introduced the variety of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces or armed civilians for the reason that starting of the yr to at the very least 42. The casualties embody armed members of militant teams, lone assailants and bystanders .
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
