TEL AVIV—Israeli police launched an investigation into a violent melee that happened earlier than the funeral of a outstanding Palestinian-American journalist, amid rising worldwide condemnation of officers who fought with casket bearers making an attempt to march to a Jerusalem church.
Israeli officers have mentioned officers who struck pallbearers Friday have been in search of to hold out a plan agreed upon with the household of Shireen Abu Akleh, the 51-year-old Al Jazeera journalist killed last week as she lined an Israeli army raid within the West Financial institution, to have the physique transported in a car.