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The Israeli army has found the dead bodies of the three kidnapped Jewish settlers who went missing in the occupied West Bank two weeks ago.
The bodies of 16-year-olds Naftali Frenkel and Gilad Shaar and 19-year-old Eyal Yifrach were discovered near the village of Halhul, north of Hebron where two suspects in the case – Marwan Qawasmeh and Amer Abu Aisha – lived.
“They were kidnapped and murdered in cold blood by beasts,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement after the military discovered on Monday the remains of the Jewish seminary students who disappeared on June 12.
“Hamas is responsible and Hamas will pay,” he said.
US President Barack Obama condemned the killings but called on all parties to exercise restraint.
Netanyahu, who earlier on Monday held Hamas responsible for new rocket strikes from Gaza, convened his security Cabinet to consider moves against the Islamist group, which has neither confirmed nor denied Israel’s allegations about the kidnapping.
The senior ministers ended their late-night session without taking any final decisions and plan to reconvene later on Tuesday, a government official said.
“Netanyahu’s threats against Gaza and against Hamas do not frighten us,” the movement’s Gaza-based leader, Ismail Haniyeh, was quoted as saying by its Al-Quds television station.
At the square in Tel Aviv where Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated in 1995, scores of Israelis lit memorial candles for the teenagers, a day after thousands attended a prayer vigil for them at the same spot.
Agencies/Canadajournal
