(ANSA) - TEL AVIV, MAY 17 - The funeral of Walidal-Sharif, a young Palestinian who was injured last month in the Temple Mount in Jerusalem during clashes between Muslim friars and police departments, degenerated into riots, which lasted for hours last night .
Al-Sharif, 23, passed away yesterday, and in the evening the funeral procession left from the al-Maqassed hospital in East Jerusalem, reached the al-Aqsa mosque, where about a thousand people were waiting, and then ended in the nearby Mujahieddin cemetery.
Harsh clashes, media reports, characterized the whole event.
LaMezzaluna rossa reports that 71 people were injured, bruised or poisoned by tear gas.
Several Israeli police officers were also injured.
Yediot Ahronotitola on the first page: 'Jerusalem, scenes of war'.
"Our forces - says a statement from the Israeli police - were faced with hundreds of violent people who tried to attack them and upset the public order. The mob threw stones, concrete blocks, blunt objects and fired fireworks height of a man ".
Fifteen arrests.
The Palestinian leadership vehemently protested against police behavior and linked these incidents with those that occurred on Friday in Jerusalem when police forces forcefully raided the courtyard and inside St. Joseph's hospital as Shireen Abu's funeral procession was about to begin. Akleh, the dial-Jazeera reporter was killed in Jenin (West Bank) while following an operation launched by the Israeli army against Palestinian counter-militants.
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