Coffin carrying veteran journalist’s body shown falling as Israeli police beat mourners with batons

Mourners had marched from Jerusalem's Jaffa Gate to Mount Zion cemetery. They have been met with violence at the St. Joseph hospital complicated by Israeli police when they tried to carry Abu Akleh's coffin, which Al Jazeera footage showed being rocked after which falling out of the palms of a number of the pallbearers, as Israeli police beat them with batons.

Crowds walked behind as Abu Akleh's rose-covered coffin was carried by pallbearers and lain right down to rest next to her parents' grave. Church bells echoed by the cemetery.

The burial was going down a day after a memorial procession that brought hundreds to the West Bank metropolis of Ramallah.

Mourners flocked to town's streets on Friday and huddled in entrance of St. Joseph hospital in East Jerusalem, the place Abu Akleh's physique remained until the burial. Muslims carried out Friday prayers and mourners chanted "strolling, strolling on foot," demanding that Abu Akleh's coffin be carried and transported on foot from the hospital to the Greek Catholic church, where a service will probably be held, and then to the burial website. Israeli police had been lined outside the hospital, in line with CNN reporters. Police roadblocks were set up across the hospital.

Mourners carried Abu Akleh's coffin out of the hospital, however have been met with robust resistance from Israeli police who compelled them to transport the physique by automobile. A flash bomb and tear fuel were fired, according to CNN reporters.

Al Jazeera dwell footage confirmed Israeli police beating mourners with batons as they struggled to hold Abu Akleh's coffin. The body was in flip introduced back inside the hospital after which transported by automotive, stated Al Jazeera.

Footage on social media and Al Jazeera showed Abu Akleh's coffin being rocked back and forth and then falling as Israeli police beat pallbearers with batons. It was not immediately clear if the coffin hit the ground.

Israeli police in a press release stated that "a whole bunch of rioters began to disrupt public order, even before the funeral began," as they worked to secure the procession.

"A whole lot of individuals gathered exterior the French hospital (St. Joseph hospital) in Sheikh Jarrah and commenced chanting nationalist incitement," added the assertion.

"In the direction of the exit of the casket from the hospital, rioters began throwing stones towards the policemen from the French hospital plaza, and the policemen were compelled to act."

Thousands had been packed inside and outside the church as Abu Akleh's body arrived. Ladies have been heard ululating in mourning and priests sang Christian hymns in Arabic because the coffin, draped in Palestinian flags, was carried by way of the group.

The circumstances of her demise remain unclear. The Palestinian Authority on Thursday denied Israel's offer of a joint investigation, insisting on an impartial course of and vowing to strive these accused of her killing to the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohamed Shtayyeh told Al Jazeera on Thursday that the results of their investigation will probably be released soon and can include the autopsy report.

Israeli navy investigators confiscated the weapons of some IDF troops as a part of their inquiry, reported the Washington Post on Thursday, citing an unnamed IDF official. The weapons had been taken so that they can be made available for ballistics testing, the official stated.

Givara Al-Buderi, a fellow Al Jazeera correspondent and a detailed personal good friend of Abu Akleh, stated she noticed the entry wound of a bullet simply above the correct eyebrow and was informed by the physician that a part of the bullet had remained lodged in Abu Akleh's cranium.

Al-Buderi was called by doctors to assist remove Abu Akleh's clothes and change her for the funeral.

"We took off her clothes and had to put a white gown on her," Al-Buderi told CNN, "I attempted to put my hand behind her head, but there was nothing there."

"I felt round but there was nothing, nothing left."

An earlier model of this story incorrectly stated where Shireen Abu Akleh's funeral service was due to be held. It was being held at a Greek Catholic Church.

CNN's Nadeen Ebrahim, Mostafa Salem and Celine Alkhaldi in Abu Dhabi contributed reporting.