Palestinians welcome foreign support in inquiry into reporter's death

RAMALLAH, West Financial institution (Reuters) – The Palestinian Authority would welcome the involvement of worldwide teams within the investigation into the demise of an Al Jazeera journalist killed whereas reporting on an Israeli raid within the occupied West Financial institution, a Palestinian official mentioned on Saturday.

The demise of veteran reporter Shireen Abu Akleh has sparked an outpouring of grief and Israel police charged at a crowd of Palestinian mourners carrying her coffin via Jerusalem’s Outdated Metropolis on Friday, drawing worldwide condemnation.

The violence, which lasted solely minutes, added to Palestinian outrage over Abu Akleh’s killing, which has threatened to gas tensions which have escalated since March.

Palestinian authorities have described the demise of Abu Akleh as an assassination by Israeli forces. Israel initially steered Palestinian hearth may need been accountable, however officers have since mentioned they may not rule out it was Israeli gunfire that killed her.

The U.N. Safety Council has strongly condemned the killing and known as for an “quick, thorough, clear, and truthful and neutral investigation”.

Hussein al Sheikh, a senior Palestinian Authority (PA) official, mentioned on Twitter (NYSE:) it will welcome the participation of all worldwide our bodies in its inquiry.

The authority has rejected a suggestion from Israel, which has voiced remorse over Abu Akleh’s demise, to cooperate within the investigation.

Israel police initially mentioned a number of the mourners close to the coffin at Abu Akleh’s funeral threw stones at cops.

In a later assertion issued in a single day, police mentioned the mourners had not stored to the unique funeral association and “threatened the motive force of the hearse after which proceeded to hold the coffin on an unplanned procession to the cemetery by foot”.

“Israeli Police intervened to disperse the mob and forestall them from taking the coffin, in order that the funeral may proceed as deliberate in accordance with the desires of the household,” police mentioned.

At a hospital in Jerusalem, a Palestinian died on Saturday of wounds inflicted throughout clashes with Israeli safety forces three weeks in the past on the al-Aqsa mosque compound.

It was the primary fatality from clashes on the delicate holy website in a number of years.