’Israel’: Three Confessed to Burning Alive Mohammed Abu Khudair

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The "Israelis" arrested for the murder of a Palestinian teenager have confessed to abducting him and burning him alive, officials said on Monday.

Easing a court gag order on the case, "Israel" said the suspects, two of them told interrogators that in slaughtering Mohammed Abu Khudair they sought revenge for the death of the three "Israeli" settlers.

The names of the suspects, remanded by an "Israeli" court pending a formal indictment, were not immediately given.

"I expect soon to get the investigative material, in which I will look for support for the assessment there is a complex problem in the matter of my client's criminal culpability," an attorney for Honenu, an ultranationalist legal aid organization, said.

According to "Israel's" Shin Bet security agency, in the early hours of July 2, as Muslims marked the end of the daylight Ramadan fast, the three suspects "patrolled Arab neighborhoods of al-Quds for a number of hours, in an attempt to find a victim to abduct, until they spotted Mohammed Abu Khudair."

Bundling him into their car, they drove to a forest outside the city where the 29-year-old suspect beat him on the head with a tire iron [wheel brace] and, helped by the two 17-year-olds, doused him with fuel and lit it, the Shin Bet said.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team