Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has demanded Israel condemn the kidnapping, torture and murder of a 16-year-old Palestinian teenager, a day after three missing Israeli teenagers were found dead. The President of the Palestinian Authority called on Israel’s Prime Minister to condemn the killing of the teenager “as we condemned the kidnapping and killing” of the three Israeli teenagers. The murder of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khudair has sparked a wave of rioting in Shuafat, a suburb of Jerusalem, leaving dozens injured, including two photo-journalists. Abu Khudair had been abducted outside a supermarket in Shuafat on Tuesday night by unidentified individuals. Hours later, his badly tortured and burned body was found ditched. In response, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged a swift investigation into the murder, but fell short of condemning it. Initial reports suspect Israeli settlers to be behind the killing. Israeli teenagers found dead Israeli security forces have run operations in the West Bank following the abduction of three Israeli teenagers, whose bodies were found on Monday, three weeks after their disappearance. The security operations have left at least four Palestinian teenagers killed and have resulted in the arrest of…
