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 were met with violence on the St. Joseph hospital advanced by Israeli police when they tried to hold Abu Akleh's coffin, which Al Jazeera footage confirmed being rocked and then falling out of the arms of some 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 down to rest subsequent to her mother and father' grave. Church bells echoed through the cemetery.

The burial was taking place a day after a memorial procession that introduced thousands to the West Bank metropolis of Ramallah.

Mourners flocked to the city's streets on Friday and huddled in front of St. Joseph hospital in East Jerusalem, where Abu Akleh's body remained till the burial. Muslims carried out Friday prayers and mourners chanted "strolling, walking 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 likely be held, after which to the burial website. Israeli police have been lined exterior the hospital, according to CNN reporters. Police roadblocks had been arrange across the hospital.

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

Al Jazeera stay footage confirmed Israeli police beating mourners with batons as they struggled to carry Abu Akleh's coffin. The physique was in flip introduced again inside the hospital after which transported by car, mentioned Al Jazeera.

Footage on social media and Al Jazeera confirmed 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 bottom.

Israeli police in an announcement stated that "a whole lot of rioters started to disrupt public order, even earlier than the funeral started," as they worked to safe the procession.

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

"Towards the exit of the casket from the hospital, rioters started throwing stones toward the policemen from the French hospital plaza, and the policemen were pressured to act."

1000's were packed inside and outside the church as Abu Akleh's physique arrived. Ladies had been heard ululating in mourning and priests sang Christian hymns in Arabic as the coffin, draped in Palestinian flags, was carried by way of the crowd.

The circumstances of her dying remain unclear. The Palestinian Authority on Thursday denied Israel's provide of a joint investigation, insisting on an unbiased course of and vowing to try those accused of her killing to the Worldwide Felony Court docket (ICC).

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohamed Shtayyeh told Al Jazeera on Thursday that the results of their investigation will probably be launched quickly and can embody the post-mortem report.

Israeli navy investigators confiscated the weapons of some IDF troops as a part of their inquiry, reported the Washington Submit on Thursday, citing an unnamed IDF official. The weapons had been taken in order that they can be made out there for ballistics testing, the official said.

Givara Al-Buderi, a fellow Al Jazeera correspondent and a detailed private pal of Abu Akleh, mentioned she noticed the entry wound of a bullet just above the correct eyebrow and was informed by the doctor that part of the bullet had remained lodged in Abu Akleh's cranium.

Al-Buderi was called by docs to help take away Abu Akleh's clothes and alter her for the funeral.

"We took off her clothes and had to put a white dress on her," Al-Buderi told CNN, "I tried to place 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 acknowledged where Shireen Abu Akleh's funeral service was resulting from 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.