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| Funeral crowd throngs East Jerusalem | Funeral crowd throngs East Jerusalem |
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| Thousands of mourners have carried the body of a murdered Palestinian teenager through East Jerusalem amid tight security ahead of his funeral. | |
| Mohammad Abu Khdair's family believe he was killed in a revenge attack for the kidnapping and killing of three young Israelis last month. | Mohammad Abu Khdair's family believe he was killed in a revenge attack for the kidnapping and killing of three young Israelis last month. |
| In a bid to ease tensions, Palestinian militant group Hamas is said to have agreed to a ceasefire with Israel. | |
| The funeral is to take place near the family's home in the Shuafat district. | |
| Israeli officials handed the body over on Friday after Muslim prayers. It was said to be badly burnt and the family had wanted to bury him on Thursday. | |
| The body of Abu Khdair, 16, was shrouded in a Palestinian flag as it was borne aloft by mourners. | |
| Israel has deployed tight security in East Jerusalem in anticipation of possible unrest at the funeral, which follows two days of clashes there between masked Palestinians and Israeli police. | |
| Earlier on Friday it emerged that the Palestinian militant group Hamas has offered to halt its rocket attacks if Israel stops its air raids on the Gaza Strip. | |
| A source with Hamas said Egyptian intelligence officials had brokered a potential ceasefire, after escalating clashes. | |
| Israel says sporadic shelling from Gaza has continued. Several rockets and mortars landed without causing harm. | |
| Israel-Gaza tensions |