Clashes in Jerusalem after funeral for slain youth
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Palestinians infuriated at a kidnap and killing they blame on far-right Jews clashed with Israeli police in Jerusalem on Friday (July 4) after the funeral of the youth.
"Intifada! Intifada!" chanted the mourners as they carried the Palestinian flag-wrapped body of Mohammed Abu Khudair, 16, through a funeral march in the streets of his neighbourhood of Shuafat under a sweltering summer sun.
With tensions further inflamed by Israeli restrictions on Muslim access to the city's al Aqsa mosque complex during the Ramadan fasting month, protesters threw stones at police, who drove them back with stun grenades and tear gas.
Medics said 15 demonstrators were treated for injuries. There was no immediate word of arrests by the Israelis.
Abu Khudair was bundled into a car on Wednesday (July 2), witnesses said, and his charred body located in a Jerusalem forest.
Many Palestinians, including President Mahmoud Abbas, assert he was
Palestinians infuriated at a kidnap and killing they blame on far-right Jews clashed with Israeli police in Jerusalem on Friday (July 4) after the funeral of the youth.
"Intifada! Intifada!" chanted the mourners as they carried the Palestinian flag-wrapped body of Mohammed Abu Khudair, 16, through a funeral march in the streets of his neighbourhood of Shuafat under a sweltering summer sun.
With tensions further inflamed by Israeli restrictions on Muslim access to the city's al Aqsa mosque complex during the Ramadan fasting month, protesters threw stones at police, who drove them back with stun grenades and tear gas.
Medics said 15 demonstrators were treated for injuries. There was no immediate word of arrests by the Israelis.
Abu Khudair was bundled into a car on Wednesday (July 2), witnesses said, and his charred body located in a Jerusalem forest.
Many Palestinians, including President Mahmoud Abbas, assert he was