Slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to be laid to rest in Jerusalem

JERUSALEM — Thousands of Palestinians on Friday attended the funeral in Jerusalem for an Al Jazeera journalist who witnesses say was shot dead by Israeli forces earlier this week while covering a military raid in the occupied West Bank.

The Israeli military said its initial investigation showed that a heavy firefight was underway around 200 yards from where Shireen Abu Akleh was killed, but that it was unable to determine whether she was shot by Israeli forces or Palestinian militants.

Recent days have seen an outpouring of grief from across the Palestinian territories and the wider Arab world. Abu Akleh was a widely respected on-air correspondent who spent a quarter century covering the harsh realities of life under Israeli military rule, which is well into its sixth decade with no end in sight.

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