Jerusalem – Autopsy: Teen Who Palestinian Say Was Killed By Israeli Revenge Attack Was Burned Alive

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    Palestinians carry the body of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khudair during his funeral in Shuafat, an Arab suburb of Jerusalem July 4, 2014. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly Jerusalem – An autopsy showed an Arab teenager who Palestinians say was killed in a revenge attack was burned to death, officials said Saturday.

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    Palestinian Attorney General Abdelghani al-Owaiwi said he received initial autopsy results from a Palestinian doctor who was present at the autopsy in Tel Aviv. He said it shows that 16-year-old Palestinian Mohammed Abu Khdeir, whose death has sparked large protests in his east Jerusalem neighborhood, suffered burns on “90 percent of his body.”

    “The results show he was breathing while on fire and died from burns and their consequences,” al-Owaiwi said.

    His account provided the first details of the preliminary findings to be made public. The Israeli Health Ministry could not be reached for comment.

    The autopsy found evidence that Abu Khdeir had breathed in the flames as burns were found inside his body, in his lungs, bronchial tubes and his throat, al-Owaiwi said.

    He also said the young man had suffered wounds on the right side of his head apparently from impact with a rock or another hard object.

    Abu Khdeir’s charred body was found in a forest Wednesday after he was seized near his home. Palestinians immediately accused Israeli extremists of killing him to avenge the deaths of three Israeli teens who had been abducted and killed in the West Bank. Israeli police said an investigation is still underway and they have not yet determined who killed the boy or why.

    Israeli leaders have widely condemned the killing of the Palestinian youth, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed those responsible would be brought to justice.

    Palestinians took to the streets in protests after news of the boy’s death on Wednesday and clashed with police in east Jerusalem. Riots erupted in east Jerusalem Friday as thousands of Palestinians massed for the boy’s burial.

    Near the town of Qalansawe, protesters also pulled over a car driven by an Israeli Jew on Saturday, pulled him out and set the vehicle on fire, police spokeswoman Luba Samri said. The driver was not injured. Several other Israeli cars were also torched, she said. Dozens of protesters were arrested across the country throughout the day.

    Protests subsided by noon but resumed in the evening with violent demonstrations in several Arab towns in the north of the country, police said.

    Israel’s public security minister, Yitzhak Aharonovitch, visited areas of friction and said police would display “zero tolerance” toward those “who take the law into their own hands and harm innocent people.”

    Israeli Arabs, unlike Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, hold citizenship rights. But they often face discrimination and mostly identify with the Palestinians. Even so, violent riots like these are rare.

    Palestinian protesters in Jerusalem also used an electric saw to damage the light rail that connects the heavily Arab populated eastern sector of the city with the mostly Jewish West, Samri said.

    President Shimon Peres spoke with Arab leaders Saturday night in Israel urging calm. “We must unite to prevent tragedies and loss of life. Together we can lower the flames and protect the innocent people, he said.

    The chaos began after three Israeli teenagers, one of whom was a U.S. citizen, were abducted in the West Bank on June 12, sparking a huge manhunt that ended with the gruesome discovery of their bodies earlier this week.


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    Benjey
    Benjey
    9 years ago

    No Jewish person can kill someone like that sorry

    9 years ago

    the Israeli media are saying that this was a “pricetag” murder by extremist settlers. Whoever did this, whether Yidden or Palestinians, should be shot together with the murderers of the three bochurim.

    ModernLakewoodGuy
    ModernLakewoodGuy
    9 years ago

    The monsters who murdered him, forced alcohol down his throat and then over his body. They lit him up and he burned alive, both outside and from inside.

    9 years ago

    Maybe this will make them think twice before kidnapping another Jewish boy. An eye for eye! The only language anyone ever understands.

    ShmutzVesh
    ShmutzVesh
    9 years ago

    What exactly are these animals protesting? 99.9% of Israelis and Jews in general condemn this act of murder . Tell them all to crawl back into the holes they crawled out of.

    9 years ago

    Report reads:
    Near the town of Qalansawe, protesters also pulled over a car driven by an Israeli Jew on Saturday, pulled him out and set the vehicle on fire, police spokeswoman Luba Samri said. The driver was not injured.
    So these Arabs just did the job as a Message from Haven for a Jew Driving on Shaboss.

    9 years ago

    When you think yourself that this was done by a right wing extremist jew as I personally do, you cry out to G-d that there is such an era where jews are killing themselves, their own families, their hopes and their fears just to become someone to “fix” the hatred and “terror” around them that exists even in the most innocent face. This is horrible. I wonder who can live today as I find myself so anxious and unhappy knowing that a jew probably murdered a boy in cold blood and did the most heinous act of a human burning while the body was still living. How horrible this day is for any jew in the entire world. I can not even think that there is any good justice we can do. I would put the murderers in a dog cage and let them sleep on a dog mat from now on. This is terror and this is the worst I have thought a jewish soul could sink in human experience. Terrible Day folks. We must do tesvhuvah and give charity. And then at the least, pray to Hashem to save our nation.

    Liepa
    Liepa
    9 years ago

    Whilst not condoning this individuals death I certainly can understand the mitigating circumstances leading up to this action. These CHOLERAS brought this entirely upon themselves. No mercy!

    bookman
    bookman
    9 years ago

    To number 8 . You are so stupid it makes me cry for you. You are so mistaken it makes me laugh at you. From all of the evidence so far it is 99% certain that he was killed by his own people. In a short while you will see that it is 100% certain that he was killed by Palestinians killing Palestinians.

    9 years ago

    This pali kid was a homosexual. Muslims kill their homos by burning them the way this kid was burned. It is a palistinian problem not an Israeli problem. Let the palis all kill each other.

    Mikerose
    Mikerose
    9 years ago

    An eye for an eye but I still think yidden couldn’t do this this is work specialized. By the chayas behind. The wall