Shireen Abu Aqla: Violence at Al Jazeera reporter's funeral in Jerusalem

  13 May 2022    Read: 926
Shireen Abu Aqla: Violence at Al Jazeera reporter

Violence broke out at the funeral in East Jerusalem of reporter Shireen Abu Aqla, killed in disputed circumstances in the occupied West Bank.

Her coffin almost fell as Israeli police, some using batons, waded into a crowd of Palestinians gathered around it. Police said they acted after being pelted with stones.

Abu Aqla, who worked for Al Jazeera, was shot dead on Wednesday while reporting on an Israeli operation.

The killing has been widely condemned.

As Abu Aqla's coffin was carried aloft from a hospital at the start of her funeral, police struck mourners causing the coffin to almost topple.

Footage showed a standoff between police and Palestinians gathered around the coffin in the hospital compound, before officers push the crowd back, with some beating mourners. Projectiles are seen flying towards the police, who also fired tear gas.


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