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 at the St. Joseph hospital complicated by Israeli police once they tried to carry Abu Akleh's coffin, which Al Jazeera footage showed being rocked after which falling out of the fingers 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 all the way down to relaxation next to her parents' grave. Church bells echoed by way of the cemetery.

The burial was taking place a day after a memorial procession that brought hundreds to the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Mourners flocked to the town's streets on Friday and huddled in front of St. Joseph hospital in East Jerusalem, where Abu Akleh's physique remained until 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, and then to the burial site. Israeli police have been lined outdoors the hospital, in response to CNN reporters. Police roadblocks had been set up 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 car. A flash bomb and tear fuel have been fired, in line 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 turn introduced back contained in the hospital after which transported by car, said Al Jazeera.

Footage on social media and Al Jazeera confirmed Abu Akleh's coffin being rocked forwards and backwards after which 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 "tons of of rioters began to disrupt public order, even earlier than the funeral began," as they worked to secure the procession.

"Hundreds of individuals gathered outside the French hospital (St. Joseph hospital) in Sheikh Jarrah and started chanting nationalist incitement," added the assertion.

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

Hundreds have been packed inside and out of doors the church as Abu Akleh's physique arrived. Ladies had been heard ululating in mourning and monks sang Christian hymns in Arabic because the coffin, draped in Palestinian flags, was carried through the crowd.

The circumstances of her death remain unclear. The Palestinian Authority on Thursday denied Israel's supply of a joint investigation, insisting on an independent process and vowing to strive these accused of her killing to the Worldwide Legal Court docket (ICC).

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohamed Shtayyeh instructed Al Jazeera on Thursday that the outcomes of their investigation will likely be released soon and will embrace the post-mortem report.

Israeli army investigators confiscated the weapons of some IDF troops as 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 available for ballistics testing, the official mentioned.

Givara Al-Buderi, a fellow Al Jazeera correspondent and a close personal buddy of Abu Akleh, said she noticed the entry wound of a bullet simply above the correct eyebrow and was told by the physician that a part of the bullet had remained lodged in Abu Akleh's skull.

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

"We took off her garments and needed to put a white costume on her," Al-Buderi advised CNN, "I attempted to place my hand behind her head, but there was nothing there."

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

An earlier model of this story incorrectly stated where Shireen Abu Akleh's funeral service was on account of 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.