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Mohamed Abu Khdeir, the Palestinian teenager who was kidnapped and murdered on Wednesday in a suspected revenge killing by Israeli extremists, was burned alive after suffering a head injury, the Palestinian attorney general has claimed. The allegation is said to be based on initial postmortem findings that discovered soot deposits in his lungs suggesting he was still breathing when he was set on fire. The shocking details, if confirmed, would seem likely to exacerbate already toxic tensions.

The reports emerged as Egypt tried to conclude a ceasefire deal between Hamas in Gaza and Israel. But it appeared not to have taken hold, with fresh reports of rocket fire into Israel from the coastal strip.

The murder of 17-year-old Khdeir, who was buried on Friday in a highly charged funeral after his abduction outside a mosque next to his home in the early hours of Wednesday morning, has prompted days of serious rioting in Palestinian neighbourhoods of East Jerusalem, which then spread to Israeli-Arab towns.

"The direct cause of death was burns as a result of fire and its complications," attorney general Mohammed al-A'wewy told the Palestinian official news agency, Wafa, late on Friday. Israeli officials have yet to release their findings from the postmortem on the body.

Tensions have risen after three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped on 12 June and later found dead in the occupied West Bank. That has been followed by an outbreak of racist incitement on Israeli social media sites, street attacks and Khdeir's murder, a suspected revenge attack. Saber al-Aloul, director of the Palestinian forensic institute, attended the postmortem carried out by Israeli doctors in Tel Aviv. A'wewy said Aloul had reported that fire-dust material had been found in Khdeir's respiratory canal, which meant "the boy had inhaled this material while he was burned alive". Burns covered 90% of his body.

The discovery of the youth's body in a forest on the outskirts of Jerusalem has prompted the worst riots in the holy city in recent memory. The violence spread to northern Arab towns on Saturday morning, an Israeli police spokeswoman, Luba Samri, said. Protesters there threw stones at passing cars, burned tyres and hurled fire bombs at police, who responded with teargas and stun grenades. More than 20 people were arrested.

At Khdeir's funeral, furious Palestinians chanted "Intifada! Intifada!", calling for a new uprising against Israel. They clashed with Israeli police in one of the most highly charged displays of enmity in Jerusalem in years.

Palestinian officials trying to calm tensions have said they would prevent any intifada, or uprising, and seek a solution to the crisis that began when the three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped.

The discovery of the young Israelis' bodies on Monday prompted an outpouring of national grief in Israel.

In a separate incident, it was claimed by relatives that Abu Khdeir's 15-year-old cousin, Tariq, a US citizen who goes to school in Florida, was beaten by police during clashes on Thursday ahead of the funeral. The American consulate had no immediate comment on the report. His parents, Suha and Salah, said Tariq was detained but had been treated at an Israeli hospital.

What about the murder of the three Israeli teenagers? Why you were not condemning that incident? The murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir was extremely unfortunate. But the incident which provoked this murder should not be forgotten.

What about the murder of the three Israeli teenagers? Why you were not condemning that incident? The murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir was extremely unfortunate. But the incident which provoked this murder should not be forgotten.

Let's count up who has murdered the most teenagers.

Your friend Israel, that's who.

it's not just that - it's how the israelis gentrify the palestinians. i don't 100% support the palestinians, as both sides have done bad.. but i don't see how someone can honestly say that palestinians screw the israelis over more than vice versa.

Obviously in a conflict such as this there are atrocities on all sides.  By nature I am prone to give the underdogs a bit more slack.  Here we have a well funded and organized security state with nuclear weapons and high levels of funding (complements of my tax dollars) trying to colonize areas and drive out individuals on the basis of ethnic identity.  These people being driven off and having their homes razed and farms destroyed are often armed with nothing more than slingshots.  Litterally!  By nature I'm definitely prone to sympathize with the those in the position of the Palestinians, and that is even more the case after analyzing the policies of the government and the attitudes of the settlers.

Some of the settlers really do seem to be among the most detestable people ever in my opinion.  Burning the Khdeir kid alive did nothing to dissuade me of that contention (though I'll reserve judgement on this case until the facts are in.)  OTOH, the beating of Khdeir's American cousin by the Israeli security forces is pretty clear.  Whether or not they were trying to kill the kid, it looks like it could easily have resulted in his death.  How a person could watch several grown men working on behalf of the government kicking and stomping an unconscious 15 year old and continue to support Israel as some sort of a beacon of good in the Middle East is beyond me.  Of course it will be written off as 'a few bad apples', but then a whole lot of Palestinians seem to be turning up dead.

3 Jewish teenage boys from rabbi school gets murdered by hamas and world makes jokes.

1 Palestinian gets offed by small vigilante justice gone wrong and all of a sudden it's worth more of an issue.

As an impartial observer with ties to neither side by any stretch of imagination, it's obvious the left and gullible are being manipulated or otherwise being fucking pathetic enough to think the justice is with these palestinians.

Are we supposed to feel bad for people who have continuously allowed themselves to be used by arab interests and willingly shout genocide of israel every other day?

Maybe no one takes Israel seriously because they commit genocide of Palestinians because God told them to. Both sides are clearly responsible for wrongdoing, but Israel takes far too much joy in exterminating and stealing land from the Palestinian people. The actions of other arab countries doesn't give them a right to exterminate Palestinians. I don't care who you support, if your justification is "because God said so" you have no moral authority.

Maybe no one takes Israel seriously because they commit genocide of Palestinians because God told them to. Both sides are clearly responsible for wrongdoing, but Israel takes far too much joy in exterminating and stealing land from the Palestinian people. The actions of other arab countries doesn't give them a right to exterminate Palestinians. I don't care who you support, if your justification is "because God said so" you have no moral authority.

I don't care who you support, if your justification is "because God said so" you have no moral authority.

What about the murder of the three Israeli teenagers? Why you were not condemning that incident? The murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir was extremely unfortunate. But the incident which provoked this murder should not be forgotten.

I don't buy the argument that anyone has a claim to land that their distant ancestors used to own. Yes, ANCIENT Israeli jews were driven out of their lands by powerful conquerors, and that was wrong, but the Palestinians who lived there at the start of the 20th century had no part in it. They were ruled over by the Ottomans, and then by my country's empire who gave huge amounts of their land to Jewish people, many of whom had never set foot in Israel. What really matters is not whose ancestors used to live where 2000 years ago, but who lives where NOW. It is wrong to drive a people out of the homes in which they grew up, no matter what their ancestors did.

The truth is that Israel has repeatedly made border agreements only to break them by building illegal settlements in agreed Palestinian land and defending them with force. Israel is therefore clearly in the wrong when it comes to land issues, and while it's true that Israeli citizens are under threat of violence from terrorists, the Israeli government retaliates to every incident with brutal, disproportionate violence against suspects, their families, and anyone who gets in their way. Israel is the wealthiest, most powerful, and best armed state in the region and is under no realistic existential threat - unlike Palestine.

Want to use history, history will fuck you.

You get dealt what you try to deal, bitch.

Want to use history, history will fuck you.

You get dealt what you try to deal, bitch.

The facts are obvious for any one to see. There is only one faction that is overtly using and distorting 'historical' and 'humanitarian' causes to their racial advantage and stealing land for the last 2000 years and enslaving different people.

Jews deserve a place on this earth to call home. There's a reason why such a small country is the magnate of venture capital and jewel of the middle east while those who outnumber them by hundred fold are too busy killing each other even with all that oil money gold pouring in.

If you don't like the obvious facts stacked up against your case, do not evade them just because they render your position defenseless. I have stated that every case these 'palestinians' can come up with I can point out ten more justifiable reasons why israel is responding with the force it is now.

Considering the kind of racial, cultural hatred jews receive as israelites, they are perfectly responding with good degree of restraint against the threats arrayed against them. Jews have bought and fought for the land of israel that was stolen from them and squatted on by thieves and opportunistic oppressors.

Palestinians are tools at the hands of arabs and other anti jewish racists to destroy israel. I have seen the so-called demonstrations of these 'oppressed' who send little children to mouth off at israeli soldiers while the soldiers themselves show great deal of restraint against provocations. They take israeli wage, live off of israeli jobs, all the while harboring racially motivated aggression against jews.

Do not presume to tell anyone what is true and what constitutes 'reason' - obviously you never try to see it other than from the point of view that helps your so called argument.

You made your bed as thoroughly as any criminals did while taking advantage of the situation. I'd say extermination of the arab world is in order.

DEATH TO MUSLIMS!

DEATH TO THAT BITCH PROPHET CALLED MOHAMMAD!

FUCK OFF RAG HEADS.

Brilliant... then people wonder why Israel is increasingly isolated from the world; if I didn't know better, I'd say you're purposefully trying to worsen Israel's image. I mean, really? Calling for genocide now? ::)

The facts are obvious for any one to see.

Brilliant... then people wonder why Israel is increasingly isolated from the world; if I didn't know better, I'd say you're purposefully trying to worsen Israel's image. I mean, really? Calling for genocide now? ::)

It was Jewish scholars who first insisted that retaliation be limited to 'an eye for an eye'. Racial and cultural hatred does not justify the slaughter of civilians in anyone's morality

Do you really believe that? My intention in any case was to draw the principle of just and proportionate punishment from ancient Jewish law, not make judgements based on its entirety. As with any body of law, religion or philosophy, we should adopt the good, discard the bad and learn from both.

Do you really believe that?

My intention in any case was to draw the principle of just and proportionate punishment from ancient Jewish law, not make judgements based on its entirety. As with any body of law, religion or philosophy, we should adopt the good, discard the bad and learn from both.

Children killed in Israeli air raids against Gaza

 - The air assault on Gaza killed more than 30 people including at least eight children. Six children died in an air raid that targeted Hamas activist Odeh Ahmad Mohammad Kaware in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. A 13-year-old killed on Wednesday was identified as the eighth child victim of the offensive.

 - A senior aid worker in Gaza City said the area's already fragile health system threatens to be overwhelmed. "If it [the offensive] continues for more than a few days there will be a real crisis at hospitals," Fikr Shalltoot, director of programmes for Medical Aid for Palestinians, told the Guardian.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/09/israel-intercepts-gaza-rockets-heading-for-tel-aviv-live-updates

Well, it looks like the yarn spun about how the Khdeir kid was burned alive for being a queer isn't going to fly, though doubtless it will stick with some percentage of the social media crowed.

Further, it looks like it will be politically necessary to do something beyond questioning the murderers and releasing them.  The latest strategy (http://www.jpost.com/National-News/Suspects-in-murder-of-Abu-Khdeir-likely-delinquent-haredi-youth-362043) seems to be to tag the murderers as 'Sephardic Jews.'  This will, I suppose, make it more palatable to the Israeli population when they have to do some jail time.

I asked an Israeli friend one time about the difference between Sephardics and Ashkenazi Jews.  He said with sort of a chuckle that Ashkenazis were intelligent and Sephardics were stupid.  He was a smart guy (as has been the case with 90% of Jews I've ever known) and obviously did not mean it in solid literal way, but the undertone was certainly there.  It will be interesting to see how Israeli society evolves whether they do or don't managed to ethnically cleanse the West Bank and/or Gaza of the actual non-Jews.

Guys, in the end. FUCK JEWS

That's not really very helpful either; I'd bet most Israelis are as brainwashed as Americans, though in their case, the government can more easily twist the situation to influence their population, given the continuous conflict they're in.

In the end, this whole situation would probably be more easily solved if it wasn't for the US' imperialist mentality, and the profit motive of weapons manufacturers (I guess having live targets for your weapons' demonstrations is a plus for some).