Israel has, for years, unofficially prohibited the expression of Palestinian identity and culture in occupied East Jerusalem, AymanM writes.
, was killed Wednesday while reporting on an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank. Abu Akleh was reporting from Jenin when, according to eyewitnesses, other journalists, the Al Jazeera Network and the Palestinian government, she was shot and killed by Israeli troops operating in there.
Like any funeral, the procession was expected to be somber, a moment for this beloved national figure to be buried with peace and dignity and expected to be a chance for a grieving people to collectively close the chapter onby senseless violence in an occupation that shows no mercy in life or as they saw Friday, even after death.
When mourners poured out of the house carrying the flag draped coffin and began to chant, the police moved in to block the procession from advancing., beating them with batons, and at one point, almost causing pallbearers to drop the coffin. But this is not new. Israel has, for years, unofficially prohibited the expression of Palestinian identity and culture in occupied East Jerusalem out of fear that such public expressions could undermine its attempt to control the society and derail its plan to demographically alter Jerusalem’s ethnic composition and skew it in favor of the Jewish state.
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