The Palestinian leadership said Wednesday it held the Zionist entity responsible for the murder of a Palestinian teenager in a suspected revenge attack for the alleged killing of three Israeli settlers

The Palestinian leadership said Wednesday it held the Zionist entity responsible for the murder of an east Jerusalem teenager in a suspected revenge attack for the alleged killing of three Israeli settlers.
  
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in a statement demanded that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemn the murder of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khder and punish those who carried it out.
  
"I demand the Israeli government punish the killers if it wants peace between the Palestinian and Israeli people," Abbas said. The Zionist entity must also "take concrete steps on the ground to stop (revenge) attacks and the chaos caused by the Israeli escalation," he said.
  
Shortly afterwards, Netanyahu issued a statement condemning the "despicable murder" and urging the authorities to expedite an investigation into the reasons behind it.
  
Presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina in a separate statement heaped blame on the Israeli authorities. "Israel is fully responsible for the killing of the teenager and we demand that the perpetrators are found and held accountable," he said.

The killing of the Palestinian teenager, who was kidnapped and killed early Wednesday, sparked a wave of clashes in the occupied east Jerusalem where around 200 young Palestinians threw stones at police, who responded with sound bombs and rubber bullets, an AFP correspondent and police said.
  
Quoting witnesses, the Zionist radio said the youth was seen being forced into a car in the Arab eastern half of the occupied city. A body was found shortly afterwards in another part of the city, the radio said, describing it as a "suspected revenge attack" for the kidnapping of three Israeli settlers from the southern West Bank on June 12.