Israeli authorities announced on Thursday that they arrested Amr Abu Khdeir, who participated in carrying the deceased Palestinian reporter Shireen Abu Akleh’s coffin, reported AFP.
The scenes showed the Israeli police were attacking the funeral of the deceased in Jerusalem, as well as beating Palestinians who were carrying the coffin that was covered with the Palestinian flag, in an attempt to force them to remove the flag, according to the same source.
The 51-year-old reporter was killed on May 11, after that she was shot, reportedly below the ear, as she was covering a military raid in the Palestinian Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank.
Abu Akleh, a Palestinian Christian who also held US citizenship, was a prominent figure in the channel’s Arabic news service, mainly covering the Palestinian resistance and Israeli attacks.
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