The veteran Al Jazeera journalist was fatally shot by Israeli forces while reporting in the occupied West Bank.
The body of of slain veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh arrives at a hospital in the east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah. [AFP]
By Joseph Stepansky
“We don’t believe in the love of power, we believe in the power of love,” a Christian priest who will participate in Shireen Abu Akleh’s funeral tells Al Jazeera.
Abu Akleh’s body arrives at church
A hearse carrying Abu Akleh’s body has arrived at the Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Virgin in occupied East Jerusalem.
The arrival followed Israeli forces attacking mourners who tried to accompany Abu Akleh’s body to the church.
- Israeli forces beat crowd of mourners carrying casket of Shireen Abu Akleh ahead of funeral in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem.
- Thousands of Palestinians are expected to gather for the funeral service, before Abu Akleh is taken to the Mount Zion Protestant Cemetery, where she will be buried alongside her late parents in the next few hours.
- Abu Akleh’s body was brought from Jenin, where she was killed by Israeli forces on Wednesday, to Jerusalem via Nablus and Ramallah, in a procession where Palestinians paid their respects.
- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has said that he would take Abu Akleh’s case to the International Criminal Court in an effort to get justice for the veteran reporter, who joined Al Jazeera in 1997, and was an icon in Palestine and the wider Arab world.
“We don’t believe in the love of power, we believe in the power of love,” a Christian priest who will participate in Shireen Abu Akleh’s funeral tells Al Jazeera.
Abu Akleh’s body arrives at church
A hearse carrying Abu Akleh’s body has arrived at the Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Virgin in occupied East Jerusalem.
The arrival followed Israeli forces attacking mourners who tried to accompany Abu Akleh’s body to the church.
‘They wanted to walk with her body’
Reporting from East Jerusalem, Al Jazeera Imran Khan said Israel forces targeted mourners because they did not want them to walk with Abu Akleh’s casket.
“What’s going on is there was some pushing and shoving between the Israeli army and the people who wanted to take Shireen’s body to the church,” he said.
“They wanted to walk with her body. They didn’t want to go in the cars the Israeli army said that they were only allowed.”
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