Slain Palestinian Boy Was Burnt Alive, Autopsy Shows

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Palestinians in Jerusalem on Friday carry the body of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir, who they said was killed by Israeli extremists in a revenge attack. The Palestinian attorney general on Saturday says autopsy results show the teenager was burned to death. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Palestinians in Jerusalem on Friday carry the body of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir, who was killed by Israeli extremists in a revenge attack. Autopsy results show the teenager was burned to death. AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean

By Majeda Al-Batish

RAMALLAH — A Palestinian teenager, whose abduction and murder sparked three days of violent protests, was burned alive, according to initial post-mortem findings reported by Palestinian media on Saturday.

Mohammed Abu Khder, 16, was kidnapped from the Shuafat neighborhood of Arab east Jerusalem on Wednesday and his burned body was found hours later in a west Jerusalem forest, in an attack Palestinians believe was carried out by Jewish extremists.
Pathologists found the presence of smoke in his lungs, meaning he was alive while he was being burned, the Maan news agency quoted Palestinian attorney general Mohammed Aluweiwi as saying.

Abu Khder also suffered a head wound, but that did not cause his death, Aluweiwi added.
Israeli police said on Saturday that they still could not confirm whether Abu Khder’s murder was a revenge attack for the murder of three Israeli youths in the occupied West Bank last month.

A spokeswoman told AFP police were investigating “all possibilities,” noting there was a gag order on all details of the investigation.
The teenager’s funeral, which was joined by thousands of mourners on Friday, was accompanied by clashes across Israeli-annexed Arab east Jerusalem, the third straight day of violence since the discovery of his body.

Disturbances spread to the Arab towns of Taibe in northeastern Israel and Jaljulia and Qalansuwa in the center.–AFP

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