A commercial strike was declared in Al-Khalil’s town of Beit Ummar on Monday to mourn a slain Palestinian youth.
Local activist Mohamed Ayad Awad said all commercial shops and facilities have been shut down in Beit Ummar in the southern occupied West Bank in protest at Israel’s murder of the anti-occupation youth Khaled Ahmad Alyan Ikhlil shot dead by the occupation troops near the main entrance to the town on Sunday evening.
Awad added that the Israeli occupation army on Sunday evening closed off all thoroughfares out of and into Beit Ummar.
Palestinian anti-occupation protesters responded to the move by hurling Molotov cocktails on an Israeli military watchtower built on Palestinian lands in Beit Ummar.
