It has been a week since the May 11 shooting of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, but her name still tops the headlines in Israel, particularly among the Arab society. Just yesterday, a fight broke out in the Knesset, when Arab Joint List’s Knesset member Ahmad Tibi chose to attack Knesset member Meirav Ben-Ari of Yesh Atid, calling her “human scum,” for refusing to express any regrets over the death of Abu Akleh in a TV interview a few days earlier. Ben-Ari had tears in her eyes, when she later stepped up to the podium to respond. “I’m sick of it already. I’m sick of it! What kind of behavior is that?” she said.

The conflict in the Knesset broke out two days after the release of new footage showing Israeli police bursting into the Jerusalem French Hospital, where Abu Akleh’s funeral procession began. Reports showed police officers violently clashing with mourners. The incident added no credit to the police, who have already come under criticism for the way they responded to the funeral itself.

After the publication of the new footage, the police said its officers were violently attacked by a mob just before the procession started. In parallel, Chief of Police Yaakov Shabtai ordered an investigation, in a decision that was coordinated with Public Security Minister Omer Bar Lev. The police spokesperson’s office told Israeli media that they plan to conduct an investigation, stating, “The hospital has become a safe haven for lawbreakers, who threw rocks and bottles at the police, who were, therefore, forced to respond.”

The French Hospital in Jerusalem was not impressed by the reactions of the police, and is now threatening to sue for what allegedly happened. In an interview with Radio 103FM, the hospital’s administrator Dr. Maher Deeb announced, “The [law]suit will be based on the notion that this is a hospital. It is not some random place where the police can burst in and hunt people down. It is not some no-man’s land. There needs to be some kind of procedure to enter hospitals.”