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<h1 class="article-title">Abu Khdeir's Killers Released From Jail</h1>
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<span class="article-detail"><img class="icon"
src="cid:part1.04000303.05050804@freedomarchives.org"
alt="author"> Thursday July 10, 2014 22:13</span><span
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src="cid:part2.00020106.07000200@freedomarchives.org"
alt="author"> by Chris Carlson<br>
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<b><small><small><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.imemc.org/article/68415">http://www.imemc.org/article/68415</a></small></small></b></span></span></div>
<blockquote class="article-intro">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.<br>
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<p class="article">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 <a sl-processed="1"
href="http://imemc.org/article/68340" target="_blank">bore signs
of torture and indications</a> that he was still alive while
being burned.<br>
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The killers admitted their crime, and re-enacted it for the
police.<br>
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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 <a
sl-processed="1" href="http://imemc.org/article/68279"
target="_blank">reportedly uncovered two days earlier</a> near
the site they were reported missing.<br>
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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
<a sl-processed="1" href="http://imemc.org/article/68136"
target="_blank">foresnsic reports revealed otherwise.<br>
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Next to nothing has been said of the incident since it happened.<br>
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The settlers behind Abu Khdeir's brutal murder were placed under
house arrest, according to M’areev.<br>
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This past Sunday, an Israeli court also sentenced to house
arrest Palestinian-American teenager and cousin to Muhammad, </a><a
sl-processed="1" href="http://imemc.org/article/68362"
target="_blank"">Tariq Abu Khdeir</a>, who was filmed being
brutally beaten by police during clashes in Jerusalem.<br>
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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. <br>
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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 <a sl-processed="1"
href="http://www.imemc.org/article/68290" target="_blank">demolish
their family houses</a>.<br>
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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. </p>
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