pallbearers. israeli police saying in a statement that they were responding to rock throwing by that palestinian crowd. now, they have released drone footage from the hospital. it does show one man at the edge of the crowd who s throwing what appears to be a bottle at israeli police officers, but that footage does not explain why those officers start attacking the pallbearers themselves, who can t be throwing anything, because they re holding this dead woman in that coffin. i spoke earlier to a palestinian human rights lawyer and i asked her what she made of the events of the day. the fact that they wouldn t let a procession go from the hospital through the streets of jerusalem, the city that she loved the most in palestine, they try to control our lives and they try to control our death and our mourning. that s what it means to live under israeli military rule. garrett, al jazeera say that shireen abu akela was killed by
remains standing and for now you re still allowed to live in it. almost weekly, you watch government forces demolish houses, confiscate property and arrest your neighbors. that s what s happening to palestinians in the west bank. it s been happening for years. the west bank was occupied by the israeli army during the 1967 war. international law forbids to settle on lands they occupy as a result of a contract if there s no treaty in place about the transfer of control, and asserts its rights in the west bank, actively promoting what the rest of the world sees as illegal settlements on land taken from palestinian, often with the support of the united states. all palestinians in the occupied territories live under israeli military rule. even in those areas that are nominally under the political control of the palestinian authority. and as israel continues to confiscate what little