WATCH: Pallbearers drop journalist’s coffin as Israeli police hit mourners with batons

Mourners carry slain Al Jazeera veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to her burial in Jerusalem (Mahmoud Illean/AP)

Israeli police moved in on a crowd of mourners at the funeral of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh – beating demonstrators with batons and causing pallbearers to drop her coffin.

The crackdown came during a rare show of Palestinian nationalism in east Jerusalem — the part of the holy city Israel captured in 1967 and Palestinians claim as their capital.