Palestinians have staged general strike across the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, calling for confrontations with Israeli forces after the senior leader of the Islamic Jihad resistance movement Khader Adnan embraced martyrdom at an Israeli prison following an 87-day hunger strike.

Afghan voice agency (AVA) - Monitoring: Stores and schools in the central West Bank cities of Ramallah and al-Bireh remained shut on Tuesday, and laborers refused to go to work.
 
An-Najah National University in the city of Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank, also suspended classes in solidarity. The Islamic society of the university announced the postponement of the graduation ceremony that had originally been scheduled for today.
 
People in the cities of Jenin and Qalqilya also observed a general strike in commemoration of Adnan and in protest at the Israeli regime’s repressive measures against the inhumane mistreatment of Palestinian prisoners.
 
Confrontations also broke out between young Palestinian protesters and Israeli forces in the southern West Bank city of al-Khalil. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
 
Elsewhere in the Gaza Strip, all Palestinian resistance groups and institutions throughout the coastal enclave announced a general strike, urging people from all walks of life to converge on the Square of the Unknown Soldier in Gaza City following noon prayers to participate in a funeral ceremony for the late Islamic Jihad leader at al-Katiba Square.