(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) Hundreds of Palestinians participated early Monday in a funeral procession of a teenager who was killed by Israeli police two days earlier in East Jerusalem.
The body of Ali Abu Ghanim, 17, was shrouded in the Palestinian flag and borne by participants who toured the streets of East Jerusalem's Al-Tur neighborhood before burying him.
Israeli police present at the scene fired teargas at the mourners and clashed with several of them after the end of the funeral, eyewitnesses told The Anadolu Agency.
Early Saturday, Israeli forces shot Abu Ghanim at Al-Zaim checkpoint in East Jerusalem.
Police spokesperson Luba Samri said in a statement that the teenager was shot after running towards an Israeli checkpoint bearing a knife.
Abu Ghanim's father, for his part, cast doubts on the Israeli police narrative of the killing.
Israeli authorities have been stalling the handover of Abu Ghanim's body to his family until they agreed to limited the number of funeral participants to 70.
Recent months have seen an uptick in violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, which has led to deaths and injuries on both sides.
Several Israelis have been killed or injured amid increasingly frequent Palestinian attacks.
Israeli forces, meanwhile, continued to carry out raids on West Bank villages, frequently rounding up groups of young Palestinian men on claims they are "wanted" by Israeli authorities.
Israeli troops also typically use force to disperse weekly Palestinian demonstrations against the self-proclaimed Jewish state's decades-long occupation, which occasionally leads to fatalities among protesters.
Palestinians, meanwhile, decry frequent attacks by extremist Jewish settlers on their communities and property in the occupied territories.
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