On June 12, three Israeli teenagers, Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Shaar and Naftali Frankel, were abducted while hitchhiking in the West Bank. Their bodies were not found until nearly three weeks later, buried in a shallow grave in a field to the West of Hebron. On July 2, Mohammed Abu Khdeir, a 16-year-old Palestinian, disappeared. Israeli police believe his killing was revenge for the murder of the three Israeli teenagers, and the suspects in the case have admitted the crime, saying they poured gasoline on Mohammed and burned him alive. This is the latest development in the grim cycle of violence and retribution that routinely takes place in a land Christians, Jews and Muslims all call holy.
Shortly after these killings, it was reported that the family of one of the murdered Israelis, Naftali Frankel, and the family of the murdered Palestinian were drawing comfort from an unexpected source: each other. Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat later commented, The life of an Arab is equally precious to that of a Jew. Blood is blood, and murder is murder, whether that murder is Jewish or Arab.
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