Jenin – Ma’an – Large crowds of people buried the body of martyr Muhammad Ali Abu Hijab in Jenin on Wednesday.

The funeral procession set off from the government hospital in Jenin to his hometown to say goodbye to him, before praying over him and burying him in the Martyrs’ Cemetery.

The participants chanted slogans condemning the occupation’s crimes against our people in Gaza and the West Bank, and the continued silence of the international community regarding these crimes.

Abu Hijab died of wounds he sustained yesterday when the occupation forces bombed a vehicle in the eastern neighborhood of Jenin.

Five others were martyred yesterday in two bombing operations during the occupation army’s aggression on the city of Jenin and its camp. They are: Ahmed Hussam Al-Saadi, Ayham Hassan Jabr Zakarneh, Khattab Majd Badawiya, and the brothers Saif and Omar Ali Mahmoud ‘Al-Zaim’ Abu Ubaid.

A general strike called for by the Fatah movement and the national action factions spread throughout Jenin in mourning for t
he souls of the martyrs.

Source: Maan News Agency