DHAKA: A Palestinian teenager from annexed east Jerusalem was kidnapped and killed early Wednesday in a suspected act of revenge for the murder of three Israeli teens.

Israel’s army radio reported, says Hindustan Times.

The radio said the youth was seen being forced into a car a neighbourhood in the Arab eastern half of the city and his body was found several hours later in another area of the city, describing it as a ‘suspected revenge attack’.

Three Israeli teenagers were snatched from a road in the southern West Bank on June 12 and their bodies were found on Monday in a murder Israel has blamed on the Islamist Hamas movement.

They were buried on Tuesday after a day of emotionally-charged funerals, ending a story which has gripped the nation.

Israel police said they were investigating reports of a kidnapping and confirmed finding a body but refused to say whether the two incidents were connected.

‘In the early hours of Wednesday morning, police received a report of a person being forced into a car in Beit Hanina,’ police spokeswoman Luba Samri told media, referring to a well-heeled east Jerusalem neighbourhood.

‘Within an hour, a body was found in Jerusalem that has still not been identified. We are looking to see if there is a connection between the two incidents.’

BDST: 1456 HRS, JULY 02, 2014