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 had been met with violence on the St. Joseph hospital advanced by Israeli police after they tried to carry Abu Akleh's coffin, which Al Jazeera footage showed being rocked and then 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 all the way down to rest 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 introduced hundreds to the West Bank metropolis of Ramallah.

Mourners flocked to the city's streets on Friday and huddled in entrance 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, strolling on foot," demanding that Abu Akleh's coffin be carried and transported on foot from the hospital to the Greek Catholic church, the place a service might be held, and then to the burial web site. Israeli police were lined exterior the hospital, in line with CNN reporters. Police roadblocks were set up around the hospital.

Mourners carried Abu Akleh's coffin out of the hospital, however had 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 accordance with CNN reporters.

Al Jazeera live footage confirmed Israeli police beating mourners with batons as they struggled to hold Abu Akleh's coffin. The body was in turn brought again inside the hospital and then transported by car, mentioned Al Jazeera.

Footage on social media and Al Jazeera confirmed Abu Akleh's coffin being rocked backwards and forwards after which falling as Israeli police beat pallbearers with batons. It was not immediately clear if the coffin hit the bottom.

Israeli police in a statement said that "lots of of rioters began to disrupt public order, even earlier than the funeral started," as they worked to safe the procession.

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

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

Thousands were packed inside and out of doors the church as Abu Akleh's body arrived. Women were heard ululating in mourning and priests sang Christian hymns in Arabic as the coffin, draped in Palestinian flags, was carried by means of the crowd.

The circumstances of her dying remain unclear. The Palestinian Authority on Thursday denied Israel's offer of a joint investigation, insisting on an independent process and vowing to attempt these accused of her killing to the Worldwide Prison Court (ICC).

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohamed Shtayyeh informed Al Jazeera on Thursday that the results of their investigation shall be launched soon and will include the post-mortem report.

Israeli army investigators confiscated the guns of some IDF troops as a part of their inquiry, reported the Washington Put up on Thursday, citing an unnamed IDF official. The weapons have been taken so that they are often made out there for ballistics testing, the official mentioned.

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

Al-Buderi was known as by medical doctors to help take away Abu Akleh's clothes and alter her for the funeral.

"We took off her garments and had to put a white dress on her," Al-Buderi told CNN, "I tried to place my hand behind her head, however there was nothing there."

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

An earlier model of this story incorrectly stated the place 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.