Israel expands search in West Bank to find kidnapped youth
Wednesday, June 18th, 2014 8:29:10 by Khalil Khan
The Army and the Israeli secret services arrested early Tuesday another 41 Palestinians, mostly militants, according to the military, in raids in several districts of the West Bank as part of the search for the three missing young Israeli. On the fifth day of the military operation tracking, the focus has moved from Hebron, southern West Bank district of Nablus, in the north, whence most Palestinians arrested in the last hours.
Palestinian detainees now number nearly 200 since Friday, when Israel began a vast military operation to find Naftali Frenkel and Gilad Shaer, both 16, and Eyal Yifrach 19. Frenkel also has U.S. citizenship.
“We are becoming a ticket to hell for Hamas,” warned the Minister of Economy, the right Naftali Bennett, member of the Israeli security Cabinet, which is scheduled to meet again on Tuesday.
The three young students of a rabbinical seminary in the West Bank, occupied by Israel since 1967 territory, hitchhiking on Thursday night in the area of the settlement bloc of Gush Etzion after attending class when they disappeared.
One of them, an emergency phone call to the police, call the police and said he was “being kidnapped”, although the agents did act until hours after his father reported that he had disappeared.
So far no group has claimed the responsiblity, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has blamed Hamas for these ” kidnapping” and ordered a search operation in which more than 3,000 soldiers and police officers are taking part.
“We are committed to solving the kidnapping and weaken Hamas terrorist capabilities, infrastructure and recruitment organizations,” added a spokesman for the Israeli army.
The army chief Benny Gantz, said on Monday that the operation may take “many more days” and will not stop until they find the three missing.
In a statement almost unprecedented, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday condemned the kidnapping and also the Israeli raid on the Palestinian population, especially in the Hebron district, where young phone that made the call left his last location.
From Gaza, Hamas and Islamic Jihad have warned that respond to Israeli attacks against militants in the West Bank, prompting fears of a new military escalation in the region.
The last morning, Israeli warplanes attacked several Islamist positions in the Gaza in response to rocket launch hours before by militants.
Palestinian security sources said that F-16 aircraft carried out three attacks in training centers and open fields from which militants frequently fire rockets attacks as there were no victims.
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Posted by Khalil Khan
on Jun 18 2014. Filed under Middle East.
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