Footage broadcast by local television shows the coffin of Qatari television reporter Al-Jazeera, who was shot in the head on Wednesday while covering an Israeli operation in the Palestinian refugee camp of Jenin, in the northern West Bank, Palestinian territory occupied by Israel.
Israeli police entered the hospital grounds to ban songs chanted by the crowd in tribute to the 51-year-old Palestinian journalist.
If you don’t stop these nationalist chants, we will have to disperse you using force and we will prevent the funeral from taking place.
said an Israeli policeman through a megaphone in the direction of the crowd, according to a video released by the police.
Israeli police say they have been forced to use riot dispersal means
to stop the throwing of stones against his forces.
Brutal Israeli special forces attack Shireen Abu Akleh’s funeral procession leaving St. Joseph’s Hospital
denounced on Twitter Hanane Achraoui, a former tenor of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
” Israel’s inhumanity is on full display. »
Eventually, Shireen Abu Akleh’s coffin was transported to the Old City where a mass was celebrated in a church, before burial in a nearby cemetery.
Shireen Abu Akleh, pictured here in Jerusalem, has become known across the Middle East for her reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Photo: The Canadian Press/AP
The origin of the shot not determined
The Israeli army indicated on Friday that it was not immediately possible to determine the origin of the shooting which led to the death of the journalist.
The conclusion of the preliminary report is that it is not possible to determine the source of the shot that hit and killed the reporter
the army said in a statement.
The investigation shows that there are two possibilities for the origin of the shooting having killed her
according to the army.
The first option is that of a heavy fire from Palestinian gunmen [en direction des forces militaires israéliennes]while hundreds of bullets were fired from several locations
estimated this source.
The other option is that during the firefight, one of the soldiers [israélien] fired a few bullets from a jeep using a telescopic sight towards a terrorist who was shooting at his vehicle,
the army said.
On Wednesday Israel, after saying that the journalist had most likely
succumbed to Palestinian fire, said he did not rule out that the bullet was fired by his soldiers.
The Israeli army said it would continue the investigation with all available means, but lamented the absence of key elements that could determine the origin of the shooting.
The Israeli authorities are demanding that the bullet that was fatal to the journalist be given to them in order to carry out a ballistic examination. The Jewish state has proposed that Palestinian and American experts be present during this examination.
For his part, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday accused the Israeli authorities of being completely responsible
of the journalist’s death, refusing a joint investigation with Israel.
” The Israeli authorities have committed this crime and we do not trust them. »
A first autopsy was conducted in the West Bank shortly after his death, but no results have been released.
With information from AFP
Reference-ici.radio-canada.ca