A 14-year-old Arab boy was seriously wounded by security forces during a disturbance at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.
A blanket curfew imposed Sunday over the territory’s 700,000 Arab residents was extended for a second day.
Two other Palestinians were wounded in a punitive raid on the West Bank village of Beita.
The Israel Defense Force confirmed these incidents Monday as the territories were paralyzed by a general strike marking the 22nd anniversary of the Six-Day War.
Streets were deserted and shops were shuttered in West Bank villages and towns. In Bethlehem, activists stoned several Arab-owned cars carrying workers to their jobs.
The strike was the second in two days to commemorate the “defeat of the Arab governments and their armies and the occupation of our Palestinian land, the Sinai and the Golan Heights.”
About 150 residents of the West Bank village of Habla, led by 30 masked youths, held a mourning procession Monday for Omar Kassem, a member of a Palestinian terrorist organization whose family roots are in the village.
Kassem, 48, was a senior figure in the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a pro-Syrian group led by Nayef Hawatmeh.
He had spent the past 21 years in Israeli jails and died, apparently of intestinal cancer, as the authorities were considering exchanging him for the remains of an Israeli soldier who died after being captured in Lebanon in 1983.
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