American-Palestinian Muhammad Rabee feels abandoned by the United States, he told AFP on Monday, a day after Israeli forces killed his 14-year-old son during a family visit in the occupied West Bank.

Rabee's family live in New Jersey, and like the vast majority of Palestinians from the West Bank town of Turmus Ayya, are dual citizens, but the father said Washington "turns a blind eye" to soaring Israeli attacks and abuses against them.

The sorrow on his face showing even from behind his large sunglasses, Rabee carried the body of his son Amer, shrouded in a Palestinian flag, through the streets of Turmus Ayya as dozens of residents came out to pay their final respects.

An AFP correspondent said some were waving flags and chanting slogans as the funeral procession made its war from the local morgue to a mosque, and finally on to the cemetery.

After the shooting that killed his son and wounded two other teenagers in Turmus Ayya, near a main road through the West Bank, Rabee said he has a message to US President Donald Trump.

Trump must "stop this situation, stop sending........

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