Footage shows a group of agents approaching the pallbearers, who begin to attack them with batons to the point where the box is about to fall
Israeli security forces gunned down pallbearers carrying the remains of Palestinian-American journalist Shirin abu Akle as the coffin was removed from Jerusalem’s St. Louis French Hospital for its final two-day tour of the city. about a clash between Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank. The footage captured by the Al Jazeera chain — for which the late journalist worked — shows a group of Israeli agents approaching the coffin bearers, who begin attacking them with batons to the point that the coffin is about to hit the ground. to fall.
Israeli sources explained to the chain that the carriers failed to meet the conditions for the funeral celebrations by attempting to move the coffin through the city on foot instead of the vehicles allowed by Israeli security forces.
Finally, the coffin was taken by hearse to the Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, in East Jerusalem, according to Al Jazeera, which has also reported the arrest of four people, including two for waving the Palestinian flag.
According to the media for which the journalist works, Israeli police broke one of the windows of the vehicle carrying the coffin to remove another Palestinian flag that was inside. After the family was able to bury the victim in a cemetery on the outskirts of the Old Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City, police have finished dispersing the crowd by firing tear gas.
Source: La Verdad
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