Jewish Group Organizes Visit With Family of Slain Arab Teen
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Jewish anti-racism group has arranged to visit the mourning tent of the Abu Khdeir family in East Jerusalem later on Tuesday to offer condolences over the killing of Israeli Arab teenager Muhammed Abu Khdeir, allegedly by Jewish extremists.
The Tag Meir organization published details of the event on Facebook overnight Sunday and noted that the trip had been arranged with the approval of the family.
“The visit is coordinated with the Abu Khdeir family, which welcomes and is moved by our upcoming arrival at their mourning tent,” the group said.
As of Monday morning some 330 people had responded online that they intend to join in the event.
Tag Meir intends to arrange buses from the International Convention Center in Jerusalem at 4:00 p.m. to the family home in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat.
The discovery of Abu Khdeir’s burnt body in a Jerusalem forest last week sparked rioting in East Jerusalem centered in the Shuafat neighborhood.
On Sunday police arrested six Jewish suspects in connection with the killing, which was allegedly retaliation for the abduction and killing of three Jewish teens whose bodies were discovered last Monday near Hebron.
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