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Police directing traffic away from the crime scene in the Jerusalem Forest Photo by Emil Salman

Muhammad Hussein Abu Khdeir, 16, whose charred body was found Wednesday morning (image by Ma'an)
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Police report finding a body in forest west of Jerusalem, earlier receiving reports of a teenager forced into a car in East Jerusalem.

By Haaretz | Jul. 2, 2014 | 8:36 AM |

Police found a body in a forest west of Jerusalem, early on Wednesday morning. A large police force is present on the scene.

Earlier the Jerusalem Police received a report that a man was forced onto a vehicle near the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina. A missing persons report was also filed. The link between the incidents has not yet been corroborated but the father of the missing child was taken by the police to identify the body.

Palestinian media is reporting that the Palestinian teenager was kidnapped by Israeli Jews and murdered in retribution for the kidnapping and murder of the three Israeli teenagers, whose bodies were discovered Monday night.

The Palestinian claims are uncorroborated, still mobs of Israeli extremists protested in Jerusalem on Tuesday calling for revenge for the murder of the Israeli teens. Five Palestinians were attacked, and two of them needed medical treatment. The extremists were engaged in violent confrontations with police in the capital's center for several hours.

The police arrested 50 people suspected of involvement in the incidents. Public transportation in the center of town was disrupted for hours, and hundreds of youths ran through the downtown city streets yelling racist slogans and calling for revenge against Arabs.

Meanwhile, security services were still searching for the suspects in the murder of the three slain Israeli teenagers, while a divided Israeli government is scheduled to hold another meeting to discuss ways to respond.

The bodies of Eyal Yifrah, 19, from Elad, Gilad Shaar, 16, from Talmon, and Naftali Fraenkel, 16, from Nof Ayalon were found on Monday, north of the Palestinian town Halhul, just north of Hebron. They had been missing since June 12.

The three teenagers were laid to rest side-by-side at the Modi'in Cemetery, after services were held at the hometowns of the three teens, Elad, Talmon and Nof Ayalon.

On Monday night, after the cabinet convened for an urgent meeting, Israel launched a massive air strike on the Gaza Strip, hitting 34 targets which the IDF said were terror-related. In the West Bank city of Jenin, a Palestinian was killed in clashes with Israeli security forces.

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by IMEMC News

he body of a Palestinian teenager was found in Jerusalem after a day and evening of Israeli protests that turned into mobs streaming through the streets of the Old City and east Jerusalem chanting ‘Death to Arabs’.

At least 8 Palestinians had to be rescued from the mobs by police, and 47 people were arrested for disorderly conduct and property destruction.

16-year-old Muhammad Hussein Abu Khdeir was abducted from outside his home in Shu'fat in occupied east Jerusalem by a group of Israelis, who forced him into a car and sped off, according to local sources.

The teen’s burned body burnt was found hours later in a vacant lot in another part of the city, sparking protests in his home neighborhood.

Around 200 Palestinians took to the streets to voice their anger over the brutal killing of the child, and were met by rubber bullets and tear gas from Israeli police.

Twelve people were injured, including two journalists. One reporter with Palestine TV in Jerusalem, Christine Renawi, was shot by a rubber-coated steel bullet in her shoulder. Cameraman Ali Yassin was shot by a rubber-coated steel bullet in his arm. Israeli police remain in Shoefat, and have closed all entries to the neighborhood.

The abduction and killing of the 16-year old appears to be a ‘revenge attack’ for the deaths of three Israeli teenagers, whose bodies were discovered on Monday, according to local sources.

This incident followed several hours of right-wing Israeli protests and marches through the streets in which people shouted ‘Death to Arabs’, and pulled Palestinians out of their vehicles and beat them.

At the same time as the funeral of three Israeli settlers on Tuesday, protesters gathered in Jerusalem to hear speeches that called for ‘revenge’ against Palestinians for the deaths of the three youth. Very little information has been released about the deaths of the settlers, but two Palestinians were taken into custody and their homes exploded by the Israeli military.

Thousands of people attended the funeral of the three settlers, two of whom were 16 years old and the other who was an Israeli soldier age 19.

At the funeral, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke in terms of contrasts, saying there is “a broad moral gulf (that) separates us from our enemies. They sanctify death, we sanctify life. They sanctify cruelty, and we mercy and compassion.”

He called for revenge against the Hamas party, “saying Hamas is responsible. Hamas will pay, and Hamas will continue to pay.” Hamas officials have vehemently denied any connection to the attack, and Israeli officials have presented no evidence linking them to the incident.

Amnesty International put out a statement warning against ‘revenge’ attacks, noting: “The Israeli authorities have not presented any evidence to back their assertion that Hamas or the two named suspects were responsible for the teens’ abductions and murders.”