Video from the funeral of Shireen Abu Akleh, the Al Jazeera journalist who witnesses say was killed by Israeli forces’ gunfire in the occupied West Bank, shows Israeli police confronting the crowd before moving in, beating some people with batons.
Friday showed crowds of chanting mourners attempting to carry the beloved reporter's coffin out of a hospital in east Jerusalem toward a Catholic church.
Police accused “hundreds of rioters” of disrupting public order before and during the funeral by chanting nationalist slogans and throwing stones at them. Crowds chanted “We die for Palestine to live” and sang the Palestinian national anthem, a rare mass show of Palestinian nationalism in east Jerusalem — the contested part of the holy city that Israel captured in 1967 and which the Palestinians claim as their capital.
Reporters who were with Abu Akleh, including one who was shot and wounded, said there were no clashes or militants in the immediate area when she was killed early Wednesday. All of them were wearing protective equipment that clearly identified them as members of the press.
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