Coffin carrying veteran journalist’s body proven 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 complex by Israeli police once they tried to hold Abu Akleh's coffin, which Al Jazeera footage confirmed being rocked after which falling out of the fingers of among 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 right down to rest next to her mother and father' grave. Church bells echoed via the cemetery.

The burial was taking place a day after a memorial procession that brought 1000's to the West Financial institution city 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 "walking, 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 might be held, after which to the burial web site. Israeli police have been lined outside the hospital, according to CNN reporters. Police roadblocks were arrange around the hospital.

Mourners carried Abu Akleh's coffin out of the hospital, but had been met with strong resistance from Israeli police who compelled them to move the body by automotive. A flash bomb and tear fuel have been fired, in line with CNN reporters.

Al Jazeera stay footage showed Israeli police beating mourners with batons as they struggled to carry Abu Akleh's coffin. The physique was in turn brought back contained in the hospital after which transported by automobile, said Al Jazeera.

Footage on social media and Al Jazeera showed Abu Akleh's coffin being rocked backwards and forwards and then 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 started to disrupt public order, even before the funeral began," as they labored to safe the procession.

"A whole bunch of people 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 had been pressured to act."

Thousands have been packed inside and outside the church as Abu Akleh's body arrived. Ladies had been heard ululating in mourning and clergymen sang Christian hymns in Arabic because the coffin, draped in Palestinian flags, was carried through the crowd.

The circumstances of her death stay unclear. The Palestinian Authority on Thursday denied Israel's offer of a joint investigation, insisting on an impartial process and vowing to attempt these accused of her killing to the International Prison Court docket (ICC).

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

Israeli navy investigators confiscated the weapons of some IDF troops as part of their inquiry, reported the Washington Post on Thursday, citing an unnamed IDF official. The weapons had been taken so that they are often made out there for ballistics testing, the official said.

Givara Al-Buderi, a fellow Al Jazeera correspondent and a close personal buddy of Abu Akleh, mentioned she noticed the entry wound of a bullet simply above the correct eyebrow and was instructed 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 assist take away Abu Akleh's clothing and change her for the funeral.

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

"I felt around but there was nothing, nothing left."

An earlier version of this story incorrectly acknowledged the place Shireen Abu Akleh's funeral service was as a consequence 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.