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King_David

(14,851 posts) Fri Jun 13, 2014, 09:32 PM Jun 2014

Israeli Teenagers Said to Be Kidnapped in West Bank

JERUSALEM — Three Israeli teenagers were missing in the West Bank and were presumed to have been kidnapped, Israeli military officials said on Friday. The episode tested Israel’s already strained ties with the Palestinians and prompted the involvement of the State Department amid reports that one of the youngsters held United States citizenship.

Secretary of State John Kerry called President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel. A State Department official said, “We are working the issue as hard as we can.”

Mr. Netanyahu said he held Mr. Abbas responsible for the well-being of the missing teenage boys, who were studying at a religious high school and seminary in the West Bank.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/06/14/world/middleeast/3-israeli-teenagers-said-to-be-kidnapped-in-west-bank.html?_r=0&referrer=

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Israeli Teenagers Said to Be Kidnapped in West Bank (Original Post) King_David Jun 2014 OP

yes and a wing of ISIS has taken responsibility for the kidnapping azurnoir Jun 2014 #1

Yeah, I had a double take at that as well... shaayecanaan Jun 2014 #2

well Israel is imposing sanctions on the Palestinians azurnoir Jun 2014 #3

Israel charges terror group behind teens' disappearance King_David Jun 2014 #4

Israel says Hamas militants behind abduction of three teens Mosby Jun 2014 #5

Yes it looks like Hamas King_David Jun 2014 #6

Hamas King_David Jun 2014 #7

azurnoir

(45,850 posts)

1. yes and a wing of ISIS has taken responsibility for the kidnapping

Reply to King_David (Original post)

Fri Jun 13, 2014, 11:07 PM

Jun 2014

which happened in an area under Israeli security

http://www.democraticunderground.com/113464195

shaayecanaan

(6,068 posts)

2. Yeah, I had a double take at that as well...

Reply to azurnoir (Reply #1)

Sat Jun 14, 2014, 10:56 AM

Jun 2014

Mr. Netanyahu said he held Mr. Abbas responsible for the well-being of the missing teenage boys, who were studying at a religious high school and seminary in the West Bank.

You could see it as a tacit admission by Netanyahu that the PA would be much better equipped to police Hebron than the Israelis would be, which is probably correct.

From Richard Silverstein's blog:-

Several months ago, the IDF executed three members of the Palestinian Islamist group in a cave in the South Hebron Hills. The kidnapping is supposedly avenging the killings. Though the army later claimed the militants had been found with weapons and bombs and were prepared for a terror attack, I never saw any evidence of this. The IDF regularly uses these sorts of unsupported charges to obscure outright assassinations in cold blood. We know this in cases where there were witnesses or video. In this case, neither were available. So given the IDF’s brazen track record for lying, I’m not prepared to accept its version of the killings.

We know that one of the Israeli victims used his cell phone to call 911 the night of the kidnapping. But he could not speak and, unfortunately, the Israeli police, never known for their competence or diligence, did not start a search until the following morning after the family reported the disappearance.

http://www.richardsilverstein.com/

azurnoir

(45,850 posts)

3. well Israel is imposing sanctions on the Palestinians

Reply to shaayecanaan (Reply #2)

Sat Jun 14, 2014, 09:36 PM

Jun 2014

Hebron is closed off as is Gaza and no Palestinian laborer will allowed to enter a settlement the last one is because it is believed it will pressure Abbas to 'stop protecting the perpetrators' this is in spite of the fact that the PA is helping IDF in the search

it seems so far Netanyahu has used this for political posturing and to to prove himself by blaming all Palestinians the unity government and of course ignoring that Israeli security knew for 7 hours about the missing boys before doing anything and if reports of ISIL being the perpetrators are true, it represents a major SNAFU in Israeli intelligence

King_David

(14,851 posts)

4. Israel charges terror group behind teens' disappearance

Reply to azurnoir (Reply #1)

Sun Jun 15, 2014, 10:24 AM

Jun 2014

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/06/14/teens-missing-israel/10518501/

Sounds like Hammas.. Same usual cowardly behavior .

Mosby

(16,295 posts)

5. Israel says Hamas militants behind abduction of three teens

Reply to King_David (Original post)

Sun Jun 15, 2014, 05:29 PM

Jun 2014

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said on Sunday that Hamas militants had abducted three Israeli teenagers in the occupied West Bank, warning of "serious consequences" as it pressed on with a search and detained dozens of Palestinians.

The two 16-year-olds and a third man aged 19, seminary students in a Jewish settlement bloc, disappeared on Thursday.

"These teenagers were kidnapped and the kidnapping was carried out by Hamas members," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told reporters, referring to the Palestinian Islamist group that controls the Gaza Strip.

http://news.yahoo.com/israel-detains-80-palestinians-search-missing-teens-072420056.html

King_David

(14,851 posts)

6. Yes it looks like Hamas

Reply to Mosby (Reply #5)

Sun Jun 15, 2014, 07:06 PM

Jun 2014

Awful.

King_David

(14,851 posts)

7. Hamas

Reply to Mosby (Reply #5)

Mon Jun 16, 2014, 01:55 PM

Jun 2014

Hamas is a terrorist organization -SOS Kerry

And soon to be united with the PA

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