Footage of alleged Israeli police misconduct during the funeral of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh has gone viral. The prevailing media narrative is that police “stormed” Akleh’s casket as it emerged from St. Joseph’s Hospital in eastern Jerusalem.
Even before the police announced an inquiry into the incident, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned Israel. Yet other videos and eyewitness accounts of Friday’s events paint a different picture than the one described by many journalists.
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