Baton-wielding Israeli police swarmed the funeral procession of mourners carrying the casket of slain Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh through Jerusalem today.
The shocking images broadcast by Al Jazeera show Israeli police beating mourners carrying Palestinian flags, the pall bearers getting jostled and the casket almost falling to the ground.
The incident occurred as the procession attempted to take the coffin of Abu Akleh – who was a Christian – to a nearby church for the funeral.
Al Jazeera report that the Israeli government had forbidden the procession from walking the coffin 45 minutes to the church and had insisted that the body be taken in a hearse.
They had also warned the brother of Abu Akleh to limit the size of the funeral procession and they forbid Palestinian flags from being displayed or slogans being chanted.
The Qatari-owned media outlet even report that Israeli soldiers had been asking people entering the church if they were Muslim or Christian and barring entry to the former.
‘By our blood, and our soul, we will avenge your death,’ protestors chanted at Israeli forces obstructing them from accompanying the coffin to the church.
The scenes come as Israel admits that it may have been one of its soldiers that shot and killed the veteran Palestinian reporter during a West Bank raid on Wednesday.
Shireen Abu Akleh, 51, a well known television personality in the Middle East, was fatally shot in the face while she reported on an IDF raid of a refugee camp in the north West Bank town of Jenin.
Initially both sides had pointed the finger at the other, with Al Jazeera and Qatar – which owns the media outlet – blaming an Israeli sniper for firing at their reporters who were clearly marked as press.
In response, Israel released a short video of a Palestinian gunmen firing down a corridor, saying militants had been firing ‘indiscriminately’ and that Abu Akleh was ‘likely’ killed by one of them.
The video was swiftly debunked by online sleuths including B’Tselem, The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, which showed that Palestinian gunmen seen in the video had no line of sight towards the location where Abu Akleh was killed.
Israeli sources have since started walking back their assertions, with Benny Gantz, the Israeli defence minister, conceding that she could have been shot by fire from ‘our side’.
‘A soldier with a rifle and a very good aiming system was shooting toward a terrorist with an M16, in very good condition, very clear picture, that was shooting on our troops,’ an IDF official speaking on condition of anonymity told the Washington Post.
‘What we are checking now is the location of Shireen.’
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Investigators have confiscated rifles from the IDF soldiers involved in the raid for ballistic testing.
Israel has called for a joint investigation into Abu Akleh’s death with the Palestinian Authority, which administers parts of the West Bank and cooperates with it on security.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas angrily rejected the proposal, saying ‘we hold the Israeli occupation authorities fully responsible for killing her,’ even as thousands gathered to mourn the slain Al Jazeera journalist in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah yesterday.
‘They cannot hide the truth with this crime,’ Abbas said in an address as her body lay in state with a Palestinian flag draped over it in the West Bank city of Ramallah, where the Palestinian Authority is headquartered.
‘They are the ones who committed the crime, and because we do not trust them, we will immediately go to the International Criminal Court,’ Abbas said.
The ICC launched an investigation into possible Israeli war crimes over a year ago. Israel has rejected that probe as being biased against it.
Hussein al-Sheikh, a senior aide to Abbas, said that the Palestinians would conduct their own independent probe and convey the results ‘with high transparency.’
He rejected an Israeli request to conduct its own ballistic analysis on the bullet.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett accused the Palestinians of denying Israel ‘access to the basic findings required to get to the truth.’
He called on the Palestinian Authority to not take ‘any steps to disrupt the investigation or to contaminate the investigation process.’
Hagai El-Ad, executive director of B’Tselem denounced Israel’s announcement of an investigation.
‘The announcement of an investigation is one of Israel’s tried and unfortunately successful tricks in the blanket impunity Israel provides itself,’ he said.
‘Israel does not investigate. Israel whitewashes, and the announcement of the investigation is just the first stage in this whitewash,’ he added.
‘The investigations are not meant to establish accountability. They are meant to protect the perpetrators.’
Abu Akleh was killed while covering an Israeli military raid in Jenin, which has emerged as a militant bastion in recent weeks as Palestinians have carried out a series of deadly attacks and Israel has launched military raids across the occupied West Bank.
Her death was met with an outpouring of grief across the Arab world. The 51-year-old was well-known as a veteran on-air correspondent for Al Jazeera’s Arabic-language channel.
Her reporting shed light on the harsh realities of Israeli military rule, which is well into its sixth decade with no end in sight. She was also a U.S. citizen.
Her body was to be brought to Jerusalem, where she was born, for burial on Friday.
The killing sparked international condemnation and widespread calls for accountability.
U.N. Secretary General Antonio Gutteres called for an ‘an independent and transparent investigation’ to ensure those responsible are held to account.
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Wednesday promised such an inquiry, saying he was in touch with U.S. and Palestinian officials and hoped for cooperation between Israel and the Palestinians.
‘We are trying to figure out exactly what happened,’ he said. ‘I don’t have final conclusions.’
Asked about the investigation and Israel’s offer for the Palestinians to participate, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday that U.S. officials ‘stand ready to assist either party in any way that we can.’
‘Neither side has asked for our assistance at this time and such a request would be required in order for us to do so,’ she said.
Abu Akleh’s death could draw new scrutiny of Israel’s military justice system, which is being examined as part of the ICC probe. It also threatened to further strain often rocky relations between the army and the international media.
Rights groups say Israel rarely follows through on investigations of deadly encounters with Palestinians, and that when it does, it often hands down lenient punishments.
Her death comes amid a wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence that has been fuelled by tensions at a key Jerusalem holy site.
At least 18 people have been killed in Palestinian attacks in recent weeks, as well as more than 30 Palestinians, most of them involved in attacks or clashes with Israeli forces. Among the slain Palestinians were an unarmed woman and at least two apparent passersby, fuelling criticism that Israel often uses excessive force.
There you go! Here’s yet again your “chosen people of God” Satan in action!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The jews are not fully human they are part demonic entities from Hell.
The spawn of satan, the serpent’s seed.
Jesus said it best: “You jews are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and he stood not in the truth; because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.”
John 8:44
Wherever they are Hell is also, they bring it with them.
Khazaria is not their true homeland and neither is Israel, Hell is where they come from and where they go directly after they die.
Adam and Eve weren’t the first human beings, they were the first jews.
Eve was half demonic entity and half human and the DNA of all jews goes back to one woman, Eve who had children with the devils from Hell. The reptilian.
The jews hate their neighbors and all fully human beings because we have souls and they do not.
Because the people of the middle east are beautiful looking and the women are virtuous,
And in stark contrast, jews are the ugliest reptilian looking monsters on earth and their women are all whores, only a bigfoot would want to mate with a jew woman who are identical to the men,
There is no way to distinguish a male jew from a female jew or to decide which is more ugly and repulsive looking. They are all perverts and degenerate psychopaths, they are the evil on this earth.
And Hitler was right and he was Jesus, trying to save us from the devil jews.
They are responsible for all the evil on this earth. Yet they blame everyone else for their hideous crimes. Crimes which are just their non human, demonic, reptilian, nature.
Their crimes against humanity are just who they are SOULLESS GODLESS DEVILS who want to be God, and think they they can be worshiped as God if they lie enough and fake enough crimes against them. Vicious crimes only they are capable of themselves.
Hitler was right.