Palestinians held a general strike on Monday to protest against Israel’s controversial Jewish nation-state law, while also commemorating the deaths of 13 people killed in clashes with the police in October 2000.
In annexed east Jerusalem, the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip, schools and many businesses were closed, AFP journalists reported.
Demonstrations were planned later in the day in the West Bank city of Ramallah, as well as in the Arab Israeli community of Jatt in northern Israel.
The strike is “against the policy pursued by Israel in order to erase Palestinian nationalism and the displacement of citizens from their land”, Ramallah resident Khaled Abu Ayoush said.
On October 1, Arab Israelis and Palestinians commemorate the deaths of those killed in a series of clashes with police in 2000, during protests in support of the second Palestinian intifada (uprising).