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Police clash with mourners at Palestinian journalist's funeral

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Israeli police clashed with Palestinian mourners packed around the coffin of killed Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh at the start of her funeral procession in Jerusalem on Friday.

Television footage showed masked police officers facing scores of flag-waving and chanting Palestinians in the compound of St Joseph's Hospital in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem.

Officers then charged the crowd... 

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