Autopsy Finds Slain Palestinian Teen Was Burned Alive

Mohammed Abu Khder, 16, was reportedly kidnapped and killed Wednesday, in an apparent act of revenge for the murder of three Israeli youths.

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Autopsy finds slain Palestinian teen was burned alive, official says

The burned remains of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khudair were found in woods near Jerusalem Wednesday. The boy may have been kidnapped and murdered by a group of far-right Jews avenging the killings of three Israeli teens last month, officials suspect.

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Saturday, July 5, 2014

Death And Revenge: Jerusalem After The Teen Killings

Palestinians and Israeli security forces clashed on the streets of Jerusalem on Wednesday, following several tense days in both Jerusalem and the West Bank...

The burned remains of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khudair were found in woods near Jerusalem Wednesday. The boy may have been kidnapped and murdered by a group of far-right Jews vigilante group avenging the killings of three Israeli teens last month, officials said.

Initial autopsy findings from the body of an East Jerusalem youth who Palestinians believe was kidnapped and killed by far-right Jews showed that he was burned alive, the Palestinian attorney-general is reported as saying.

"The direct cause of death was burns as a result of fire and it's complications," Mohammed Al-A'wewy was quoted as saying by Palestinian official news agency Wafa late on Friday.

ATEF SAFADI/EPAA autopsy found that 16-year-old teen Muhammed Abu Khdair was burned alive. At  his funeral on Friday, furious Palestinianscalled for a new uprising against Israel.

Israeli-Palestinian tensions have risen sharply after three Israeli teens were kidnapped on June 12 and later found dead in the occupied West Bank.

This was followed on Wednesday by the kidnapping of Mohammed Abu Khudair, 16, in his neighborhood in Arab East Jerusalem. His charred body was found hours later in a forest on the edge of the city.

Saber Al-Aloul, the director of the Palestinian forensic institute, attended the autopsy which was carried out by Israeli doctors in Tel Aviv.

Al-A'wewy said Al-Aloul had reported fire dust material was found in Khudair's respiratory canal which meant "the boy had inhaled this material while he was burnt alive."

Burns covered 90 percent of the surface of the body. The head suffered a cut. Samples like liquids and tissues were taken for more lab examinations to complete the legal medical report.

At Khudair's funeral on Friday, furious Palestinians chanted "Intifada! Intifada", calling for a new uprising against Israel. Stones thrown at Israeli police were met by teargas, stun grenades and rubber bullets in one of the most highly charged displays of enmity in Jerusalem in years.

MAHFOUZ ABU TURK/EPAPalestinians throw stones on Israeli police Friday as tensions between the two parties grow.

Clashes continued across the occupied West Bank overnight with at least one Palestinian hurt in the city of Nablus, medical staff said. Clashes also erupted in Israeli-Arab towns, a police spokeswoman said.

Palestinian officials trying to calm tensions have said they would prevent any intifada, or uprising, and seek a solution to the crisis that began when the three Israeli teens were kidnapped.

The discovery of the young Israelis' bodies on Monday prompted an outpouring of national grief in Israel.

HANDOUT/REUTERSIsraeli teens Eyal Yifrah, Gil-Ad Shaer and Naftali Fraenkel were killed last month. Officials suspect Khdair's death is an act of revenge.

Many Palestinians, including President Mahmoud Abbas, assert that Khudair was the victim of far-right Jews incensed at the Israeli deaths.

With Israel having mobilised ground forces outside Gaza on Thursday in a threat to invade, Egypt tried to mediate a truce. Israel and the Islamist Palestinian Hamas movement each said the other had to back down first.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Abu Khudair's killing, a day after the three Jewish seminary students were buried, "loathsome" and ordered a swift police investigation.

Israeli authorities said they did not yet know whether Abu Khudair was indeed the victim of a hate crime.

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