Hussein Abu Khdeir, the father of the murdered boy, Mohammed Abu Khdeir, who was kidnapped and burned alive by Jewish terrorists last week in Jerusalem, wants to emphasize that his son Mohammed looked younger than his age and was far smaller even than he looks in photographs – “You would see him and think he was 11, you wouldn’t believe he was 15.”
Above: Mohammed Abu Khbeir
Gideon Levy and Alex Levac report in Ha’aretz:
…Delegations of people wishing to console the [Abu Khdeir] family arrive in a steady flow – Palestinians and also Israeli peace activists – but Hussein [Abu Khdeir, the father of the murdered boy, Mohammed Abu Khdeir, who was kidnapped in East Jerusalem and burned alive by Jewish terrorists, many of whom are haredim or haredi street toughs, last week] prefers to speak his heart in Hebrew to an Israeli journalist, away from the crowd. What he wants to emphasize most is that Mohammed looked younger than his age and was far smaller even than he looks in photographs – “You would see him and think he was 11, you wouldn’t believe he was 15” – as though to hammer home the horror, which even so cannot be overstated.…
[The Abu Khdeir family lives only about 100 feet or so from] Hussein’s electrical appliances store, in front of which Mohammed was kidnapped on that awful night.…
A security camera over a candy shop next to the father’s store documented the events of that night and helped bring about the arrest of the people who kidnapped the boy and burned him alive.…
On the last evening of his life, Mohammed watched the World Cup tournament. He was a fan of Spain, which was knocked out early. His father brought him a special receiver to pick up the games, which cost 1,400 shekels ($410). It is perched now atop the television set in the living room, across from the sofa on which Mohammed sat on the last evening of his life. He then went to sleep and awoke at 3 A.M. in order to attend a prayer service with his father in this blood-drenched month of Ramadan.
On the wall of the children’s room is a map of the world in Arabic. Hussein shows us that both Israel and Palestine are marked on the map. He is barely eating, even in the evening, after the day’s fast; he has hardly slept since the murder, and his physical condition has deteriorated.…
Does Hussein trust the Israeli judicial system to punish the murderers? “I don’t trust them. Not in the least. I am afraid. I am really afraid. I think they will say that [the murderers] were insane and give them a year or two and that’s all. They burned him in cold blood. New Nazis. They are heartless. Bloodless. Godless. People who do things like that are Nazis. New Nazis. I think Nazism has now started in Israel. People there shout ‘Death to the Arabs’ – and this is the result.”…
The extremely young appearance of Mohammed, combined with the Jewish terrorists' attempted abduction of a 9-year-old Palestinian boy the day before, appears to show these terrorists were intentionally targeting children.