JERUSALEM — An autopsy of the Palestinian teenager who was snatched from an East Jerusalem street and slain on Wednesday found soot in his lungs that suggests he was burned alive, according to a senior Palestinian official briefed on the preliminary results.Continue reading.
The autopsy showed that the teenager, Muhammad Hussein Abu Khdeir, 16, who was buried as a martyr on Friday in a funeral that drew thousands, had a head injury and burns over 90 percent of his body, the Palestinian attorney general, Mohammed al-A’wewy, wrote on his agency’s official website.
The Israeli police are still investigating the attack and have not named any suspects in what is widely seen as an act of revenge by Jews for the abduction and murder last month of three Israeli teenagers in the occupied West Bank...
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Saturday, July 5, 2014
Palestinian Teenager Was Burned Alive, Official Says
From Jodi Rudoren, at the New York Times:
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