LIVE UPDATES: Netanyahu orders swift probe after Palestinian teen found murdered

[Jefferson23]

Not yet clear if body belongs to teen reported missing by family overnight, Palestinian claims that the man was killed by Israelis are uncorroborated as of yet; 50 Israelis arrested over Jerusalem riots.


By Haaretz | Jul. 2, 2014

Police found a body in a forest west of Jerusalem, early on Wednesday morning, in what appears to have been a revenge kidnapping and murder carried out by right-wing Israeli extremists. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered a swift investigation into the incident and has warned vigilantes "not to take the law into their own hands."

Jerusalem police received a report earlier in the night that 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.

The police are blocking the entrances to Beit Hanina and stopped the light rail to that part of the city. Hundreds assembled by the home of the missing Palestinian teenager. The family of the Palestinian teen is vehemently denying the rumors that he was kidnapped by Palestinians due to a feud between families, claiming that they aren't involved in a feud.

Palestinian claims that the man was killed by Israelis are uncorroborated as of yet. 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. 50 people suspected of involvement in the incidents were arrested.

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[R. Daneel Olivaw]

1. An eye for an eye: making the whole

world blind.

[geek tragedy]

2. I'm sure he'll get to the bottom of this about when OJ finds the real killer.

This is P.R. for foreign consumption, nothing more.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

3. Well, if Netanyahu doesn't follow through

with this pledge so closly on the heels of the other killings then he will definstely be a horses ass.

[geek tragedy]

4. he already is a horse's ass, and worse nt

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

5. Yes, but I meant more so.

[geek tragedy]

6. The fix is already in. If they find the guys who did this, that forces

some rather painful scrutiny on the rhetoric of his allies and fellow travelers. And it would mean actually holding the price tag terrorists accountable, with all the fallout that would prompt.

So, it will go unsolved with anonymous Israeli officials saying they still 'suspect' it was because the kid was gay or had unpaid debts, etcetera

[King_David]

7. "because the kid was gay"

How fucked up is it, that this could even be entertained as a reason in 2014?

[geek tragedy]

8. Who's entertaining it? nt

[King_David]

9. First time I heard that was here,

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