Images broadcast by Palestine TV showed that the coffin of the journalist from Al-Jazeerawho was shot dead on Wednesday during an Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank, nearly fell to the ground as policemen dispersed people waving Palestinian flags.
Israeli forces stormed the compound of the Saint Joseph hospital in East Jerusalem, a Palestinian sector of the city occupied and annexed by Israel.
“If they don’t stop these nationalist chants, we will have to disperse them using force and prevent the funeral from taking place,” an Israeli policeman told the crowd through a megaphone, according to a video released by the police.
Almost in parallel, Israel announced that the preliminary investigation into the death of Shireen Abu Akleh, who was wearing a press vest and helmet at the time of the military operation, did not produce a result.
“The conclusion of the preliminary report is that it is not possible to determine the origin of the shot that struck and killed the journalist“, the army said in a statement, in which it considers the possibility that the shot could come from Palestinian fighters or an Israeli soldier.
“The investigation shows two possibilities about the origin of the shot that killed her,” he says verbatim.
The first is that it comes from “massive shooting by armed Palestinians [contra soldados israelíes]within the hundreds of bullets that were fired from different places”.
“The other option is that during the shooting one of the soldiers fired several bullets from a vehicle (…) against a terrorist who was targeting his vehicle,” the text adds.
Both Palestine and the Qatari network Al Jazeera and the Qatari government accuse the Israeli army of deliberately shooting the journalist. A producer, who was injured in the same incident, confirmed that there were no Palestinian combatants in the area.
Israel have asked the Palestinian authorities for the bullet that ended his life to determine the origin of the shot. Palestinian officials refuse to carry out a joint investigation, while the international community has demanded a serious investigation.
The funeral of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh will be held at a Christian church in Jerusalem.
His funeral will take place in a context of continued violence, as new clashes broke out in the refugee camp of Jeninwhere the correspondent died, in which a Palestinian was wounded by a bullet in a new operation by the Israeli army, according to the official Palestinian agency Wafa.
The remains of the popular reporter will later be buried near her parents in a cemetery near the Old City of Jerusalem.
Thousands of Palestinians already paid tribute to him Thursday during an official ceremony in Ramallah, headquarters of the Palestinian Authority of the occupied West Bank.
Source: Ambito
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