Just three days after it assassinated Al Jazeera’s Shireen Abu Akleh, Israel had decided to double down on its criminal mischief. The orders were handed down to assault her funeral and decimate its Palestinian character. As soon as her mourners gathered peacefully in the courtyard of St Joseph’s Hospital in occupied East Jerusalem, carried the coffin and prepared to head to Shireen’s final resting place, the Israeli security forces charged to stop the procession. They viciously assaulted the grievers, beating them brutally with batons, making it impossible for the pallbearers to protect their bodies. But these courageous Palestinians remained standing...