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| Palestinian teenager's body found in Jerusalem | |
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| Israeli police have found the body of a Palestinian teenager who was kidnapped overnight in East Jerusalem. | |
| A boy was seen being forced into a car in Shufat early on Wednesday. Within hours, a partly-burned corpse was discovered in a forest in Givat Shaul. | |
| Israeli police were unable to confirm the motive, but Palestinian sources said it appeared to be a revenge attack for the murder of three Israeli teens. | Israeli police were unable to confirm the motive, but Palestinian sources said it appeared to be a revenge attack for the murder of three Israeli teens. |
| Later, Palestinians clashed with Israeli police near the boy's home. | |
| The protesters threw stones at the officers, who reportedly responded by firing sound bombs, tear gas and rubber bullets. | |
| The mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, called for restraint. | |
| "This is a horrible and barbaric act which I strongly condemn," he said in a statement. "This is not our way and I am fully confident that our security forces will bring the perpetrators to justice." | |
| Israel 'responsible' | |
| Initial reports said the boy was abducted in the early hours of the morning near his father's shop in the Arab district of Shufat in East Jerusalem. Witnesses say he was bundled into a white car. | |
| A few hours later his body, partly burned and bearing marks of violence, was found abandoned in a forest in the western outskirts of the city, the report said. | |
| At the scene: Yolande Knell, BBC News, Jerusalem | |
| Roads are closed off all around the Shufat neighbourhood of East Jerusalem as crowds of young Palestinians vent their anger. Some have begun destroying the shelters for the Israeli tram system. | |
| Small groups are using catapults to launch stones at heavily armed Israeli police officers. They are responding with rounds of rubber bullets. An ambulance has whizzed past with sirens blaring suggesting there have been injuries. | |
| Locals say the dead Palestinian boy was 16-year-old, Mohammed Abu Khudair, although Israeli police have not confirmed that. His funeral is expected to take place later on Wednesday; that will be another cause for tension. | |
| While there has been no confirmation that this was a revenge attack for the three murdered Israelis whose bodies were found in the West Bank earlier this week, there is no doubt among Palestinians here about what has happened. | |
| Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said they were looking to see if there was a connection between the missing teenager and the body that was found. | |
| Officers were looking into possible criminal or nationalistic motives for the killing, he added. | |
| A senior official from the Fatah movement of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told the Reuters news agency that his family had identified the body. | |
| "The Israeli government bears responsibility for Jewish terrorism and for the kidnapping and murder in occupied Jerusalem," said the official, Dmitry Diliani. | |
| The BBC's Kevin Connolly says it is too early to say for sure, but there is a real possibility that the killing is a tit-for-tat reprisal, with all the dangers that would pose for the broader relationship between Israel and the Palestinians. | |
| The killing comes a day after funerals were held in the West Bank for the three Jewish seminary students whose bodies were found near the city of Hebron on Monday, two-and-a-half weeks after they were abducted. | The killing comes a day after funerals were held in the West Bank for the three Jewish seminary students whose bodies were found near the city of Hebron on Monday, two-and-a-half weeks after they were abducted. |
| Thousands of people attended the ceremony in Modein, among them Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres. | Thousands of people attended the ceremony in Modein, among them Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres. |
| Mr Netanyahu vowed to strike at Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group he holds responsible for their deaths. It has denied any involvement. | |
| On Tuesday night, dozens of Israelis took to the streets of Jerusalem to protest against the murder of the three teenagers. There were reports that at one demonstration some people shouted "death to the Arabs". | |
| About 40 Palestinians were arrested throughout the West Bank as the Israeli authorities continued to crackdown on Hamas. Four were injured early on Wednesday after being shot during a raid in the city of Jenin. |