The
search for the three abducted Israeli teenagers, Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Shaar, and
Naftali Frenkel (who held Israeli and American citizenship), ended on June 30th
with the grisly discovery of their bodies in a shallow grave near the West Bank
city of Hebron. They were found by civilian volunteers from an Israeli field
school in the area, who alerted Israeli security forces. The boys appeared to
have been shot, perhaps shortly after the abrupt ending of a cell phone call
from one of the teens in which he said, “I was kidnapped.” Cartridges of
bullets were found in the burnt out vehicle that was determined to be the car
carrying the kidnapped teens……..This appears to have been a planned operation,
with possible funding, training, logistical support and safe houses being
arranged with the support of Hamas’s infrastructure extant in the West Bank
itself as well as from Gaza. An intensive search is underway for others
involved in the operation. Targeted Israeli attacks on Hamas’s West Bank
infrastructure are likely to continue. More action is under consideration as
Israeli leaders have reacted to the latest news with fury and disgust…… President
Obama joined Ban Ki-moon and other Western leaders in denouncing the murders.
He broke his inexcusable weeks-long silence on the abductions themselves and
made this statement about the murders……However, Obama characteristically lumped
Israel, the victim of this deliberate act of atrocity against its young, with
the Palestinians, the aggressors. ……To
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