Officials: Israel Finds Bodies of Kidnapped Teens

HEBRON, WEST BANK - JUNE 20, 2014 - Israeli soldiers are patroling as part of the search operation in the fields north of the West Bank city of Hebron. During the large scale military operation about 200 members of t... HEBRON, WEST BANK - JUNE 20, 2014 - Israeli soldiers are patroling as part of the search operation in the fields north of the West Bank city of Hebron. During the large scale military operation about 200 members of the Palestinian Hamas organization who were suspected in terrorist activity were arrested, among them some who were released in the GILAD SCHALIT prisoner swap in 2011. The IDF is currently operating in several Palestinian cities, deploying checkpoint, searching homes and patrolling the country side, all as part of an effort to gather information that will lead to the whereabouts of the three missing Israeli teens, believed to be kidnapped (Photo by Omer Messinger/NurPhoto/Sipa USA) MORE LESS

JERUSALEM (AP) — Security officials say the Israeli military has discovered the bodies of three Israeli teenagers who were kidnapped in the West Bank earlier this month.

They say the bodies were found Monday near the village of Halhul, near the location where the teens disappeared on June 12.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity in exchange for releasing the information ahead of a formal announcement.

The search for the teens has become a national obsession, setting off a frantic manhunt and large crackdown on the Hamas militant group.

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  1. Avatar for sjk sjk says:

    Hammer time.

  2. Time to flatten the village of Halhul. Amiright, Israel?

  3. Time to murder some more children, amirite Hamas?

  4. And how many children did the Israelis already kill in retaliation in their strikes on Gaza? Neither side in that region is without the blood of innocent children on their hands.

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