Israeli police forces charged and used stun grenades to confiscate Palestinian flags. Six Palestinians have been arrested and the Palestinian Red Crescent has reported treating dozens of injured.
Israeli Public Security Minister Omer Bar Lev on Saturday ordered an investigation into the brutal intervention of the Israeli police against those who attended the funeral of the Palestinian journalist. Shirin Abu Aklewho died after receiving a headshot in covering clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinians in the West Bank.
“The Israeli police will investigate what happened during the funeral. The Israeli police support its agents, but as a professional organization trying to learn and improve, it will also draw conclusions from the incident,” the police said in a statement. collected by The Times of Israel newspaper.
Israeli Police on Friday the attendees charged to the funeral for seize Palestinian flagsbanned in Israel, during the mass funeral procession of the journalist in Jerusalem. The officers attacked those present and unbalanced those carrying the coffin about to fall
Six Palestinians were arrested during the funeral and Israeli police officers charged and used stun grenades because, they say, the coffin was stolen during a riot when “hundreds of rioters tried to sabotage the event” by entering the coffin on foot via an unauthorized route. This intervention has been highly criticized internationally, in particular by the United Nations, the United States and the European Union.
For now, Israel has admitted the possibility that the journalist died of a… shot fired by friendly troopsbut has explained that he cannot draw any conclusion without the bullet that killed the reporter, in the possession of the Palestinian Prosecutor’s Office.
The Palestinian Authority reported this Saturday that there may be “participation” of international organizations in the study and has rejected any option for Israel to join it.
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Source: EITB
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