[News] Abu Khdeir's Killers Released From Israeli Jail

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  Abu Khdeir's Killers Released From Jail

author Thursday July 10, 2014 22:13author by Chris Carlson

*http://www.imemc.org/article/68415*

    Hebrew newspaper M'areev reprorted, on Wednesday, that Israeli
    police have released the three settlers accused of torturing and
    burning to death Palestinian teen Muhammad Abu Khdeir.

According to Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency, six Israeli settlers were 
arrested following last week's abduction of the boy from Sho'fat refugee 
camp, in occupied East Jerusalem, and the later discovery of his body, 
which bore signs of torture and indications 
<http://imemc.org/article/68340> that he was still alive while being burned.

The killers admitted their crime, and re-enacted it for the police.

They said that they had been searching for any Palestinian child, out of 
revenge for the death of three Israeli settlers who went missing more 
than two weeks preceeding, and whose bodies were reportedly uncovered 
two days earlier <http://imemc.org/article/68279> near the site they 
were reported missing.

Just prior to the incident, Israeli forces gunned down two Palestinian 
teens during crowd dispersals at a Nakba Day solidarity protest, raising 
various token comments from officials within the international 
community. Israeli forces consistently denied that live ammunition was 
employed during the incident, but foresnsic reports revealed otherwise.

Next to nothing has been said of the incident since it happened.

The settlers behind Abu Khdeir's brutal murder were placed under house 
arrest, according to M'areev.

This past Sunday, an Israeli court also sentenced to house arrest 
Palestinian-American teenager and cousin to Muhammad, 
<http://imemc.org/article/68136>Tariq Abu Khdeir 
<http://imemc.org/article/68362>, who was filmed being brutally beaten 
by police during clashes in Jerusalem.

Meanwhile, Al Ray reports that over 500 Palestinians are still being 
held in Israeli jails - mostly without charge, for murder or anything 
else - after being rounded up during the massive arrest campaign which 
ensued in the region, following the disappeaance of the settlers.

Israel, in the last week of June, named two suspects in connection with 
the disappearance, Marwan al-Qawasmeh, 29, and Amer Abu Eisha, 33, going 
to far as to demolish their family houses 
<http://www.imemc.org/article/68290>.

Al Ray notes that if confessed murderers are suitable for release to 
house arrest, then, surely so too must be the 500+ Palestinians who have 
not committed or been charged with any crime at all.

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