Not again! Israelis Kidnap Palestinian Boy and Burn Him Alive [Photos]

The 15-year-old cousin of a Palestinian boy who was burned to death in Israel has been badly beaten and arrested while protesting about his relative's death.

Mohammed Abu Khder, 16, was burned to death in a suspected attack by Israeli extremists in revenge for the killing of three Jewish teenagers abducted in the West Bank recently.

Now family members say Abu Khder's cousin Tariq Abu Khder, 15, has been badly beaten by Israeli police while being arrested during a protest sparked by Abu Khder's death.

Footage has emerged on social media showing border guards savagely beating a youth, thought to be Tariq, before dragging his semi-conscious body away.

 

Footage has emerged seeming to show Israeli police savagely beating 15-year-old Tariq Abu Khder, the cousin of Mohammed Abu Khder was was burned to death this week

The video shows uniformed officers punching a boy on the ground before kicking him in the head and then dragging his semi-conscious body away

Meanwhile an autopsy on Abu Khder's body has shown smoke was inhaled into his lungs, suggesting that the teen was still alive and breathing while he was being burned.

Palestinian news agency Maan quoted Attorney General Mohammed Aluweiwi Saturday as saying the initial findings of a post-mortem indicated the presence of smoke in the boy's lungs.

Abu Khder also suffered a head wound, but that did not cause his death, Aluweiwi added. Israeli police said Saturday they still could not confirm the motive for his murder.

Abu Khder's cousin Tariq is a US citizen who studies in Florida and was on vacation in east Jerusalem at the time of the killing.

Abu Khder's death has sparked days of violent protests in Israel, with Gaza militants firing ten missiles at Israelis

Riots erupted in east Jerusalem yesterday as thousands of Palestinians massed for the boy's burial

Israeli Arabs, unlike Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, hold citizenship rights. But they often face discrimination and mostly identify with the Palestinians.

Palestinian protesters in Jerusalem also used an electric saw to damage the light rail that connects the heavily Arab populated eastern sector of the city with the mostly Jewish West, Ms Samri said.

The chaos began after three Israeli teenagers, one of whom was a US citizen, were abducted in the West Bank on June 12, sparking a huge manhunt that ended with the gruesome discovery of their bodies earlier this week (Read here).