Dickinson Press · Dickinson, North Dakota · 14 May 2022
CP-2022-005
Israeli police beat mourners
Police violence breaks out at funeral of slain journalist
Reuters, Jerusalem
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“JERUSALEM — Israeli police officers charged at Palestinian mourners carrying the coffin of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on Friday, before thousands led her casket through Jerusalem’s Old City in an outpouring of grief and anger over her killing.
Packed around Abu Akleh’s coffin, dozens of Palestinians, some waving Palestinian flags and chanting, ‘With our soul and blood we will redeem you Shireen,’ began walking toward the gates of St.
Joseph’s Hospital… At one point the group carrying her coffin backed against a wall and almost dropped the casket, recovering it just before one end hit the ground as stun grenades detonated… Israeli police said a group of Palestinians outside the hospital, whom they described as rioters, had begun throwing stones at officers.
‘The policemen were forced to act,’ they added… ‘We’re here because we are screaming for justice. Justice for Shireen Abu Akleh and justice for Palestine,’ said one mourner, who did not want to be identified by name.”
Context added by this archive
Both accounts of the same minutes, in adjacent paragraphs: the charge at the coffin, and the police saying they were forced to act.
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"Israeli police beat mourners," Dickinson Press, 14 May 2022, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2022-005. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2022-005
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