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Omaha Steve

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Fri Jul 4, 2014, 11:36 AM Jul 2014

Clashes break out during Palestinian funeral

Source: AP-EXCITE

By YOUSUR ALHLOU

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police clashed with Palestinian protesters in Jerusalem on Friday as thousands of people converged on a cemetery for the burial of an Arab teenager, who Palestinians say was killed by Israeli extremists in a suspected revenge attack.

Palestinian militants fired at least six rockets and mortar shells toward Israel, but that was a sharp decline from recent weeks and no retaliatory Israeli airstrikes were reported a day after the Israeli military rushed additional forces to its southern border with the Gaza Strip because of intensifying barrages.

An ambulance carried the body of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir, wrapped in a Palestinian flag and traditional headscarf, to a mosque in the neighborhood where he lived, then mourners carried the open casket through the crowd to a cemetery.

During the procession, masked Palestinians threw rocks at Israeli police officers on duty nearby who responded with stun grenades, spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. He said more than 2,000 people attended the funeral.

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Palestinian youth climb over Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank village of al Ram to cross towards Jerusalem on Friday, July 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)
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