Palestinian martyred at point-blank buried in hometown

Hundreds of Palestinians attended a funeral procession for 22-year-old Ammar Mefleh, 28 days after an Israeli soldier killed him with four shots at point blank.

Israeli authorities withheld the martyr’s body for 27 days and finally handed it over to his family on Thursday.

Hundreds of people attended the funeral procession in Mefleh’s hometown, a village southeast of Nablus, the occupied West Bank.

Participants chanted slogans against the occupation and constant aggression against defenseless Palestinians while also denouncing the regime for withholding the bodies of the martyrs.

Mefleh was martyred on December 2, following an alleged stabbing attack against the regime’s forces at a checkpoint in the northern West Bank town of Hawara.

Footage released on social media showed Ammar being shot four times at point-blank range as he was lying on the ground.

According to a video that went viral, a fight between the Israeli soldier and the young man was reported prior to the shooting.

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