Protesters at Palestinian funeral conflict with Israeli police, dozens injured

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Greater than 70 Palestinians had been injured in clashes with police at a Monday evening funeral in Jerusalem, additional enflaming already heightened tensions within the metropolis.
Protesters and mourners gathered for the funeral of Walid al-Sharif, 23, who died Saturday of accidents he sustained throughout final month’s clashes with police at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque. Police say six officers had been injured at Palestinians carried Sharif’s physique previous the mosque to a close-by cemetery.
Footage circulating on social media exhibits demonstrators throwing objects at Israeli police as officers reduce off the tip of the procession. Police later launched an announcement saying protesters threw “stones, bottles, bricks and different heavy objects” at officers, in keeping with the Agence France Presse.
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Mourners carry the coffin of Palestinian, Waleed Shareef, 21, throughout his funeral on the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Outdated Metropolis, Monday, Could 16, 2022. Shareef died Saturday from a head wound sustained final month after Israeli police fired rubber bullets at stone-throwing Palestinian demonstrators throughout violence on the Al Aqsa Mosque compound, in Jerusalem’s Outdated Metropolis.
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The incident comes days after one other conflict between funeral-goers and police final week. The funeral was for veteran American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed masking protests within the West Financial institution.
Mourners insisted on carrying Akleh’s casket to a close-by Greek Orthodox church on foot, one thing Israeli police had sought to keep away from. Officers had erected barricades in an effort to pressure mourners to move Akleh’s physique in a car.
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It’s unclear what prompted violence to interrupt out, however footage exhibits officers firing rubber bullets and throwing stun grenades at protesters. Police may be seen hanging pallbearers with batons.
Akleh was killed throughout a information report on Could 10 below disputed circumstances. Israeli police say Akleh could have been killed by Palestinian crossfire after their forces got here below assault.
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“It seems possible that armed Palestinians — who had been indiscriminately firing on the time — had been accountable,” Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett mentioned.
Al-Jazeera, her employer, says she was murdered by police.