• Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said police had been notified of a youth ‘pulled into a vehicle and possibly kidnapped’ and roadblocks were set up in search of suspects. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP Photo
    Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said police had been notified of a youth ‘pulled into a vehicle and possibly kidnapped’ and roadblocks were set up in search of suspects. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP Photo
  • Police later discovered a body in the Jerusalem forest and were looking to see if there was a connection between the missing youth and the body that was found. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP Photo
    Police later discovered a body in the Jerusalem forest and were looking to see if there was a connection between the missing youth and the body that was found. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP Photo
  • As word spread of the Palestinian teenager’s disappearance and the discovery of a body, hundreds of Arab youths blocked Jerusalem’s light railway. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP Photo
    As word spread of the Palestinian teenager’s disappearance and the discovery of a body, hundreds of Arab youths blocked Jerusalem’s light railway. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP Photo
  • Police said security was heightened in Jerusalem, with extra units dispatched and the city’s light rail train service cut short to avoid the scene of the violence. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP Photo
    Police said security was heightened in Jerusalem, with extra units dispatched and the city’s light rail train service cut short to avoid the scene of the violence. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP Photo
  • Authorities also closed a key holy site in Jerusalem’s Old City to visitors after rock throwing there. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP Photo
    Authorities also closed a key holy site in Jerusalem’s Old City to visitors after rock throwing there. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP Photo
  • Israeli officials urged calm as police investigated the incidents, hoping to contain the violence. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP Photo
    Israeli officials urged calm as police investigated the incidents, hoping to contain the violence. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP Photo
  • Tensions have mounted between Israel and the Palestinians after the bodies of three Israeli teens were found in the West Bank more than two weeks after they went missing. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP Photo
    Tensions have mounted between Israel and the Palestinians after the bodies of three Israeli teens were found in the West Bank more than two weeks after they went missing. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP Photo
  • Masked Palestinian protestors throw stones toward Israeli police during clashes in Shuafat neighborhood in Israeli-annexed Arab East Jerusalem, on July 2, 2014, after a Palestinian teenager was kidnapped and killed in an apparent act of revenge for the murder by militants of three Israeli youths. AFP PHOTO / AHMAD GHARABLI
    Masked Palestinian protestors throw stones toward Israeli police during clashes in Shuafat neighborhood in Israeli-annexed Arab East Jerusalem, on July 2, 2014, after a Palestinian teenager was kidnapped and killed in an apparent act of revenge for the murder by militants of three Israeli youths. AFP PHOTO / AHMAD GHARABLI
  • The Palestinian leadership said on Wednesday it held Israel responsible for the murder of an east Jerusalem teenager in a suspected revenge attack. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP Photo
    The Palestinian leadership said on Wednesday it held Israel responsible for the murder of an east Jerusalem teenager in a suspected revenge attack. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP Photo
  • Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas demanded in a statement that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Natayahu condemn the murder and ‘take concrete steps ... to stop [revenge] attacks’. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP Photo
    Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas demanded in a statement that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Natayahu condemn the murder and ‘take concrete steps ... to stop [revenge] attacks’. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP Photo

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In pictures: ‘revenge killing’ of Palestinian teen sparks protests

Rob Gurdebeke

July 02, 2014

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Palestinians clashed with Israeli forces in Jerusalem on Wednesday after the discovery of a body raised suspicions a Palestinian youth had been killed by Israelis avenging the deaths of three abducted Jewish teens.

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