Clashes in East Jerusulem after teen body found

Reuters 2014-07-02

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Israeli police investigate the scene where another body of a teenage boy was found.

This time it is believed to be that of missing 16-year-old, Mohammed Abu Khudair, a Palestinian.

(SOUNDBITE) (English) SPOKESMAN FOR ISRAELI POLICE, MICKY ROSENFELD, SAYING:

"At the early hours, the Israeli police received a report of a teenager who went missing. After police set road blocks in and around Jerusalem, after an hour and a half we discovered a body in the Jerusalem forest. At this moment in time, the main aim of the investigation is look and understand if it is criminal or nationalistic."

The discovery, just two days after the bodies of three kidnapped Israeli teenagers were found in the West Bank, has already triggered violent protests, with angry Palestinians and Israeli forces exchanging stones and rubber bullets, despite police having yet to identify the body.

Earlier the same morning witnesses said they saw a teenager forced into a vehicle outside a superm

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