Pal’s despair at reporter’s burial chaos
A CLOSE friend of a Palestinian reporter whose huge funeral procession was blighted by scuffles with Israeli police told of her “despair” seeing it on TV.
Dr Nadia Naser-Najjab said she wanted to “reach through the screen” as Shireen Abu Aqleh’s coffin almost fell amid the chaos.
The Al-Jazeera reporter, 51, was shot by a sniper on Wednesday while covering unrest in the West Bank.
Dr Naser-Najjab, 59, a lecturer at Essex University and mother of two, who spoke to her friend of 18 years on most days, said: “I feel helpless, despair – we are not allowed to mourn.”
Waleed Shareef, 21, a Palestinian man hit by an Israeli police rubber bullet at a demonstration in Jerusalem on April 22, has died, hospital officials said.