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Palestinian teen returns home to US after being beaten by Israeli police
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Fifteen-year-old #Tareq_Abu_Khudair speaks to the media after his arrival home, having spent nine days under house in Jerusalem, on July 16, 2014 in Tampa, Florida. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images - Tim Boyles)

A Palestinian-American teenager who was detained in #Israel and beaten by police returned home to Florida on Wednesday, eager to seek medical care and put behind him a summer trip that drew renewed world attention to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Tareq Abu Khudair called his attack by masked police “the scariest thing that has happened to me,” and told reporters he believes his story drew outrage largely because he was a US citizen. read (...)

#Gaza #united_states #west_bank

Israeli court orders house arrest for brutally beaten US-Palestinian teen
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Tareq Abu Khudair, center, a Palestinian-US teenager who was beaten during police custody, arrives for a hearing at Jerusalem Magistrates Court on July 6, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Ahmad Gharabli)

A Jerusalem court ordered Sunday that a Palestinian-American teenager, who was severely beaten in police custody, be released to house arrest for nine days pending an investigation into stone-throwing allegations. #Tareq_Abu_Khudair, 15, who holds US citizenship and lives in Florida, is a cousin of #Mohammed_Abu_Khudair, a 16-year-old Palestinian whose kidnap and murder by suspected Zionist extremists on Wednesday has caused Palestinian uproar. read (...)

#Israel #Palestine #police_brutality #Shuafat #west_bank

More than 30 Palestinian citizens of #Israel arrested in protests for slain teen
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Israeli riot police detain a Palestinian protester during clashes in the Palestinian city of Ar’Ara, in northern Occupied #Palestine, on July 5, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Jack Guez)

Clashes sparked by the abduction and murder of a Palestinian teenager spread from east Jerusalem to Palestinian-Israeli towns, as autopsy reports showed he was burned alive. #Mohammed_Abu_Khudair, 16, was abducted from his Shuafat neighborhood in annexed east Jerusalem early Wednesday, and his charred body was found hours later in a west Jerusalem forest. Palestinians said Jewish extremists killed him in revenge for the death of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank last month. read (...)

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