JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel has charged three Jews with the kidnapping and killing of a Palestinian teenager whose death set off days of violent protests in Arab areas of Jerusalem and northern Israel.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says the three appeared before a court Monday. He says the suspects admitted to abducting 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir and setting him on fire. Rosenfeld says they also re-enacted the murder.
Abu Khdeir was taken on July 2 near his home in east Jerusalem and his charred body was later found in a forest.
Israel’s Shin Bet security service says the suspects, whose names were not released, were motivated by revenge after the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli teenagers.
Police are investigating three others for involvement in the killing. They remain under house arrest.