Zionist forces Saturday attacked Palestinians mourning the death of an elderly man martyred in a refugee camp south of the occupied West Bank.

Palestine’s Ma’an agency said clashes broke out between Palestinian youths and Israeli regime forces following the funeral of Ibrahim Baradiya, a man in his fifties whom the Israelis killed two days earlier in al-Khalil.

Reports said mourners carried Baradiya’s body to al-Arroub refugee camp via a back road as there was the fear that the Zionists might try to take it back. Palestinian authorities on Friday received the body although it was claimed by the Israelis later that delivery came “by mistake.”

The funeral on Saturday saw thousands of Palestinians marching through Arroub. The mourners called on the international community to end Israeli violations of the rights of Palestinians.

The death of Baradiya was the first after nearly two weeks of relative calm in the occupied West Bank, where a fresh wave of uprising began early in October 2015 over what the Palestinians said was plans by the illegal Zionist entity to change the status quo of the al-Aqsa Mosque, a highly revered place for the Muslims across the world.