Teenager burned alive in revenge killing for kidnap and murder of three Israeli students

 

Mohammad Abu Khadir's post mortem revealed the 16-year-old Arab's horrific ordeal and mourners fired weapons into the air at his funeral

A teenager believed to have been killed in revenge for the kidnap and murder of three Israeli students was burned alive, writes Lewis Panther in the Sunday People.

Mohammad Abu Khdair, 16, suffered horrific burns covering 90% of his body and had inhaled smoke, a post mortem revealed.

His grieving family are convinced he was killed in a tit-for-tat attack. He was last seen being forced into a car on Wednesday, the day of the funerals of the Israeli teens who went missing last month.

Scores have been injured in riots raging in the region this week.

There were even chants for another “intidfada” or uprising at Mohammed’s funeral on Friday.

The gruesome details of the Arab youngster’s death were revealed yesterday by the Palestinian attorney-general. His post mortem was jointly carried out by Israeli doctors and a Palestinian official.

Fire dust was found in the teenager’s respiratory canal, meaning the victim had “inhaled this material while he was burnt alive”.

On Friday, thousands of mourners firing weapons into the air took to the streets of Shuafat in East Jerusalem as the student electrician’s funeral procession passed – his body in an open casket, wrapped in a Palestinian flag.

They chanted “intifada” and “with our blood and spirit we shall sacrifice for the martyr”.

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu blamed Hamas for the original kidnappings and vowed to track down Mohammed’s killers.

He said: “We don’t know yet the motives or the identities of the perpetrators, but we will.

The bodies of Israeli students Naftali Frenkel and Gilad Shaar, both aged 16, and 19-year-old Eyal Yifrach were found last Monday two-and-a-half weeks after they were abducted.

Israeli police were last night investigating footage allegedly showing their security forces beating up the 15-year-old cousin of the teenager who was burned to death.

The mother of Tariq Abu Khadair, said to be an American citizen, was also said to have been punched and kicked.

-Mirror