NABLUS (Dispatches) – Hundreds of Palestinians on Tuesday walked in the funeral of Mohammed Araysheh, a resident of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, who succumbed to his wounds after being shot by Zionist troops.
Wafa news agency reported that Araysheh, 24, died in Rafidia Hospital, where he was being treated for almost two weeks after being shot during a raid by Zionist troops in the Old City of Nablus, where three Palestinians had been killed in August.
In recent months, Palestinian towns and villages in the northern West Bank have seen increased Zionist raids to arrest political activists and, in some incidents, assassinate leaders from Palestinian factions. The cities of Nablus and Jenin have been at the center of these raids.
On Tuesday, Zionist troops arrested a Palestinian from Qafin town, north of Tulkarm, after raiding his house. Another three Palestinians were also arrested in the city of Al-Khalil, south of the West Bank, where Zionist troops set up a makeshift military checkpoint at its northern entrance.
The occupying regime’s troops stopped and searched Palestinian vehicles at Halhul, Sair and Beit Kahil’s main entrances.
So far this year, Zionist troops have killed more than 80 Palestinians during raids in the West Bank.
Meanwhile, the Gaza-based Hamas and Islamic Jihad resistance movements have praised the path of resistance as the “strategic option” to confront Zionist occupation of Palestinian territories and the regime’s acts of aggression, emphasizing that there is no turnaround in the stance.
The two movements, in a joint statement released following a high-level meeting of their leaders in Gaza City on Monday, said resistance is a strategic and unalterable approach for them, and underlined that coordination between the two groups is at its pinnacle.
“We warn the [Zionist] enemy against our nation’s courageous resistance in the face of its potential treachery. Our response to such a folly will be decisive and comprehensive,” the statement read.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements also commended the formation of the Joint Operations Room as a national achievement, and stressed that Palestinian resistance groups will all work together in order to strengthen its role and position and attain full liberation of occupied Palestinian territories.