Revenge seen as most likely motive in Arab teen’s death.

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Revenge seen as most likely motive in Arab teen’s death.

Revenge seen as most likely motive in Arab teen’s death. (TOI).

Israeli police have become increasingly convinced that 16-year-old Jerusalem resident Muhammad Abu Khdeir was murdered Wednesday morning as revenge for the killing of three kidnapped Israeli teens, officials said Wednesday evening.

According to the testimony of local residents, Abu Khdeir was seen being forced into a car by three Israelis in East Jerusalem late Tuesday. Police later confirmed a body was found in a forest in West Jerusalem

DNA tests proved the body was that of the missing teenager, his family said.

An official familiar with the investigation told Israeli news site Walla that investigators were leaning toward revenge as the motive behind Abu Khdeir’s killing.

“The assessment now is that this was nationalistically motivated,” the source said.

Security camera footage from the scene of Abu Khdeir’s kidnapping strengthened investigators’ suspicions that Jewish extremists snatched the teen, Channel 2 reported.

Police are still looking into the possibility of a criminal motive for the attack, or even an honor killing, but sources told Channel 10 that the family has no criminal history.

The sources also said rumors claiming that Abu Khdeir was killed because he was gay, or because he’d had sexual encounters with local girls, are baseless.

Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told The Times of Israel that officials were investigating the possibilities that Abu Khdeir was killed in a family honor killing, or that it was a nationalistically motivated slaying.Read the full story here.

Meanwhile Carl in Jerusalem has more :

'Honor killing': Arab teen in Jerusalem murdered by family because he was gay?

PM Netanyahu told SecState Kerry "anyone who takes a life will be punished severely", says @statedeptspox
— Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) July 2, 2014

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