WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he was “deeply troubled” over images of Israeli police charging into the funeral procession of a Palestinian-American television reporter who was fatally shot on the West Bank earlier this week.
Video shows helmeted officers swinging riot sticks at people surrounding the coffin of Shireen Abu Akleh, including pallbearers, as it was being borne from a hospital in East Jerusalem on Friday.
Tensions had already been running high over the death of Abu Akleh, a veteran Middle East correspondent, who was covering clashes between gunmen and Israeli troops in Jenin for the Al-azeera network when she was shot on Tuesday.
