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With widespread rioting in the Beit Haninah area throughout the day on Wednesday, 4 Tammuz, the question being asked is will this lead to a third intifada?

Israel Police and the ISA (Israel Security Agency – Shin Bet) are working to solve the murder of the Arab teen as quickly as possible. The Arab media however is uninterested in waiting for their findings, declaring the death was a revenge murder carried out by Jews to avenge the three Jewish youths, Gilad Shaar, Naftali Frenkel and Eyal Yifrach HY”D.

During Wednesday’s rioting three pipe bombs were hurled at police and border police along with firebombs, stones and many other potentially fatal objects. Five border policemen sustained light injuries. B’chasdei Hashem there were no fatalities. PA (Palestinian Authority) sources reported 50 rioters were injured and Red Crescent paramedic Raji el-Hawarin says 37 Arabs were injured by rubber bullets, of who 17 required hospitalization. Senior Fatah official Dmitri Daliani blames Israel, pointing the finger of blame at “the Israeli occupation government of Binyamin Netanyahu”.

Without knowing the motive behind the murder of the Arab teen, which is still under investigation, the international community was quick to issue condemnatory statements.

Police hinted on Wednesday that the investigation seems to be heading in the direction of a family killing of a teenager whose lifestyle did not meet with the code of the community, and not a nationalistic murder however the latter has not yet been conclusively ruled out.

Bird’s eye view of the violence:

Arabs hurl firebombs at Jewish apartments in the capital

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)