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Suspects held over Palestinian teen's murder Mohammed Abu Khudair was abducted and murdered on Wednesday Israel has arrested suspects in the death of a Palestinian teenager, Israeli media reported. Object 1 http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0706/628845-israel/

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Suspects held over Palestinian teen's murderMohammed Abu Khudair was abducted and murdered on Wednesday

Israel has arrested suspects in the death of a

Palestinian teenager, Israeli media reported.

Object 1 http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0706/628845-israel/

Sunday 06 July 2014A security source indicated that Jewish assailants were responsible for the

abduction and killing.

The reports said six suspects were in custody.

A

security source said investigators believe

Mohammed Abu Khudair, 16, was killed out of

"nationalist motives", a term indicating they suspect that Jews were

involved.

His burnt body was discovered in a Jerusalem forest on Wednesday.

It came a day after the burial of three Jewish teenagers whose abduction in

the occupied West Bank on 12 June 12 deaths Israel blames on the Hamas

Islamist group.

Meanwhile, the United States has called for speedy investigation of an

incident in which it said a US citizen of Palestinian descent appeared to

have been badly beaten by Israeli paramilitary police.

A video clip circulated on the internet yesterday showed two Israeli Border

police holding down and repeatedly pummelling a masked youth before

carrying him away.

The family of Tariq Khdeir, 15, from Tampa, Florida, who was visiting family

in east Jerusalem, say he was the target of the punches.

The footage is blurred and the victim cannot be identified as he appears

also to be wearing a head covering.

A later part of the video shows Khdeir's face with a heavy black eye and

swollen lip.

He is the cousin of Mohammed Abu Khudair.

The Israeli Justice Ministry said in a statement that the police investigations

department was looking into the incident.

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US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the youth was visited by

an official from the consulate in Jerusalem yesterday.

"We are profoundly troubled by reports that he was severely beaten while in

police custody and strongly condemn any excessive use of force.

"We are calling for a speedy, transparent and credible investigation and full

accountability for any excessive use of force," Ms Psaki said.

Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the teenager was one of six

rioters caught and detained in the incident, three of whom were found to be

carrying knives.

He was released from custody this afternoon and placed under house arrest

for nine days.

His mother said the family planned to return to the US on 16 July.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he sent a message to UN

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urging the formation of an international

investigation committee into "terror crimes conducted against our people,

including the burning alive of Mohammed Abu Khudair".

Separately, Israeli aircraft attacked ten sites used by Palestinian militants in

Gaza this morning in response to persistent rocket strikes from the enclave,

the Israeli military said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signalled that despite these

attacks broader Israeli action is not imminent.

Rocket launchers and a weapons manufacturing facility were among the

targets of the air strikes, which followed the firing of a rocket, intercepted

by Israel's Iron Dome system late yesterday, at the major southern city of

Beersheba.

There were no immediate reports of casualties from the airstrikes.

The current flare up began in mid-June after Israel began a crackdown in

the occupied West Bank on Hamas, whose power base is in Gaza, after

blaming the Islamist group for the abduction of the three Israeli teenagers.

Hamas has neither confirmed nor denied the Israeli allegations.

The Israeli youngsters' bodies were found in the West Bank last week.

Keywords: israel, palestinians

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