Palestinian Buried after Death in Israel West Bank Raid

A Palestinian killed during an Israeli army raid on his home in the West Bank town of Birzeit was buried Friday, an Agence France Presse correspondent said.

Motazz Washaha was found dead after the Thursday morning raid by the army, which said he was "suspected of terror activity".

Some 4,000 mourners attended the funeral at Birzeit, north of the West Bank administrative center of Ramallah, calling on Palestinian factions to unite and avenge Washaha's killing.

He was identified by neighbors as a member of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the movement's flags were visible at the funeral.

Washaha's death came as Amnesty International criticized Israel's killing of dozens of Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank over the past three years.

In east Jerusalem, meanwhile, Israeli security forces clashed with stone-throwing Palestinians after Friday prayers.

An AFP correspondent said police arrested two Palestinians in Ras al-Amud, just outside the Old City.

Police had barred men under the age of 50 from attending prayers at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, in order to prevent any public disturbance, and hundreds of Muslims prayed on streets adjacent to the Old City where the holy site is located.