The Israeli occupation has forced the relatives of Palestinian martyr, who was shot dead on Saturday, to pay an amount of 20 thousand shekels to receive his body.

The family of martyr Ali Abu Ghanam paid the amount in a bid to lay the martyr to his final resting place peacefully and to prevent clashes with Israeli forces, said well-placed sources from the family.

The family is waiting for receiving a phone call from the Israeli intelligence to set an appointment for receiving the martyr’s body.

An Israeli soldier on Al Zaeem Checkpoint in the occupied East Jerusalem shot and killed on Saturday Abu Ghanam while the martyr and his girlfriend were on their way home in Al Tour area of the holy city