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| White House condemns ‘disturbing’ footage of Israeli police beating mourners in Jerusalem |
The White House described video footage from Jerusalem showing Israeli police using batons to knock back pallbearers carrying the casket of a dead Palestinian-American journalist for Al Jazeera as "very troubling."
She commented after Israeli police were spotted pulling away Palestinian flags and assaulting mourners as they made their way to a Catholic Church in the old city, against security restrictions, as they carried the body of dead Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh through the streets.
'Well, first and foremost, I would say that we have all seen those photographs, and they are clearly upsetting,' she says. When asked about the incident, Psaki stated it happened after the shooting of a TV journalist who was a regular on the network and a US citizen. Israel's Defense Forces...
