Palestinians mourn man killed by Israel forces in West Bank

Palestinians held a funeral on Saturday for a man killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank.

Tareq Moussa Idris, 39, died earlier on Saturday, the day after he was shot in the abdomen by Israeli forces in Nablus.

Palestinian security forces held a military funeral for Idris and took him through the streets of Nablus to Martyrs' Square.

Mourners then brought Idris's body through the streets of the city to old Askar camp, where his extended family's home is located.

The deceased was then taken to his own home in a neighbouring area of eastern Nablus, where his immediate family bid him farewell, the activist Mohammed Al-Sayrafi told The New Arab's Arabic sister site Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.

Al-Sayrafi said Idris's body was carried, wrapped in the Palestinian flag, to a mosque in old Askar camp where prayers were performed for him.

After this, he said, people marched with the body through the streets of the camp to a cemetery, where Idris was buried.

The funeral procession included patriotic chants denouncing the crimes of the Israeli occupation and lauding the late Idris.

It comes amid a period of increased violence by Israeli forces and settlers, who have killed 180 Palestinians so far this year.