ITV News published this video item, entitled “Israeli police beat mourners at Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh’s funeral | ITV News” – below is their description.
Israeli police attacked a funeral procession for slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on Friday, beating mourners with batons and causing them to almost drop the coffin.
Thousands of mourners, some hoisting Palestinian flags and chanting “Palestine, Palestine,” attended the funeral for the Palestinian-American reporter, who witnesses say was shot and killed by Israeli forces on Wednesday while covering a military raid in the occupied West Bank.
The mourners tried to march with the coffin on foot out of a hospital to a Catholic church in the nearby Old City.
But police said the crowd at the hospital was chanting “nationalist incitement,” ignored calls to stop and threw stones at police. “The policemen were forced to act,” they said.
In video of the shooting on Wednesday, Ms Abu Akleh can be seen wearing a blue flak jacket clearly marked with the word “PRESS.”
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