The coffin of the Palestinian journalist almost fell during violence committed in the grounds of Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Jerusalem.
Violence erupted Friday at a hospital compound in Jerusalem as Palestinian journalist Shirin Abu Aqleh was released from his coffin, where Israeli police dispersed a crowd waving Palestinian flags, according to AFP journalists on the spot. and local media.
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Footage broadcast by local television shows the coffin of Qatar TV reporter al-Jazeera, killed in an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, nearly falling to the ground as Israeli police disperse the crowd.
‘Israel’s inhumanity is on full display’
Israeli forces broke into the grounds of St. Joseph’s Hospital in East Jerusalem, a Palestinian area of the city occupied and annexed by the Jewish state. “If you don’t stop these nationalist chants, we will have to disperse you using force and we will prevent the funeral from taking place.said an Israeli policeman through a megaphone in the direction of the crowd, according to a video released by the police.
According to her, “hundreds of peoplegathered at the hospital and stones were thrown in the direction of the police who wereforced to use riot dispersal means“.
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“Brutal Israeli special forces attack Shirin Abu Aqleh’s funeral procession leaving St. Joseph’s Hospital“, denounced on Twitter Hanane Achraoui, a former tenor of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). “Israel’s inhumanity is on full display“, she said.
Shirin Abu Aqleh’s coffin was finally transported to the Old City where a mass was celebrated in a church, before burial in a nearby cemetery.
A wave of emotion
The death of this reporter, an icon of Palestinian journalism, has aroused a wave of emotion in the Palestinian Territories, in the Arab world where her reports have been followed for more than two decades, in Europe and in the United States.
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The 51-year-old Christian Palestinian journalist who also holds American nationality, was shot in the head while covering an Israeli operation in the Palestinian refugee camp of Jenin, in the northern West Bank, Territory Palestinian occupied by Israel.
Israel, after saying she had “most likelydied of Palestinian fire, said he did not rule out that the bullet was fired by his soldiers. The Palestinian Authority, al-Jazeera and the Qatari government accused the Israeli army of killing her.
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