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Former police chief says use of clubs at Abu Akleh funeral a ‘blunder’
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Israeli police confront mourners as they carry the casket of slain Al Jazeera veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh during her funeral in east Jerusalem, on May 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Maya Levin)
Former police commissioner Roni Alsheich says officers should not have used clubs against participants in the funeral of Shireen Abu Akleh, an Al Jazeera journalist killed while covering clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian gunmen in Jenin.
“The clubs did not need to be used at the funeral of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh,” Alsheich tells Kan public radio.
“This was definitely a blunder. There was no justification for it,” he says.
Scenes of Israeli police using force against Palestinians who were carrying Abu Akleh’s casket outside a Jerusalem hospital drew widespread condemnation, with the White House calling them “deeply disturbing,” and the European Union saying it was “appalled.”
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