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| June 19, 2014
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UN Follows PA Lead Suggesting Israel Made Up Abduction Story

 

In the meanwhile, the Palestinian public has begun celebrating the kidnapping of the 3 Jewish teens as a victory for their terrorist groups.

By Ryan Jones

 

Senior officials from both the United Nations and the Palestinian Authority on Tuesday suggested that Israel might have fabricated the story that three Jewish youths – Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Shaar and Naftali Frenkel – were abducted by Hamas terrorists last week.

UN, PA Suggest Israel Made Up Abduction Story

Israelis showing support for the 3 Israeli boys kidnapped

In remarks cited by Voice of Israel, Farhan Haq, a spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told reporters that the world body could not confirm if the Jewish teens were “actually” abducted as it has no investigative unit on the ground. Continue Reading »

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| June 18, 2014
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View IDF video: Operation ‘Brother’s Keeper’ get aerial assistance

 

Sky Rider unit assists its IDF ground forces locate & apprehend fleeing terrorists, make arrests and provide a more detailed picture of field occurrences.

By Yoav Zitun

 

Fighters of the Sky Rider unit who make use of the smallest drones in the IDF’s arsenal have been playing a significant role in the military’s ongoing operation to retrieve the three kidnapped teens that have been missing since Thursday night– overnight Tuesday, the unit took part in successful efforts to arrest 64 Palestinians, including 51 Hamas members who were released in the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange deal.

 With assistance from Skylark mini-UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), IDF’s ground forces were able to apprehend several terrorists who attempted to flee during the arrests. Continue Reading »

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| June 18, 2014
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Forum of Int’l Mayors call on ‘immediately & safe return’ of the 3 kidnapped Jewish teens

“It is our firm belief that at no time and under no circumstance should children become the victims of such an inhumane and unjust way of action.”

Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met this afternoon with participants in the 29th Israel International Mayors Conference. The conference is sponsored by the Foreign Ministry, the union of Local Authorities and the American Council for World Jewry. Among the participants this year are – inter alia – the mayors of Berlin, Frankfurt, Buenos Aires, Sarajevo, Marseilles, Nice and Entebbe.

Mayors present Natanyahu with letter – Photos: Haim Zach, GPO.

The mayors presented Prime Minister Netanyahu with an open letter condemning the abduction of Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Shaar and Naftali Frankel and calling for their immediate release. Continue Reading »

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| June 18, 2014
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PA Police Raid Exposes Concealed Hamas Dungeon for Holding Israeli Abductees

 

VIDEO: Security forces revisit hidden underground holding facility, found 9 months earlier by Abbas’ Palestinian Authority police.

By Dave Bender, The Algemeiner

 

Video footage released on Tuesday showed what Palestinian Authority (PA) security officials said was an underground dungeon Hamas had prepared meant to hide abducted Israelis.

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Entry to dungeon – Screenshot: Mako

The underground facility, with electricity, piped-in air, running water and waste disposal, served as a bunker intended to not only hold hostages, but also to serve as a command center to hold negotiations over their release, according to the officials, Israel’s Channel 2 reported.

PA officials said the footage was shot in September, 2013, during a raid conducted in the West Bank village of Tzurif, between Hebron and Jerusalem. Continue Reading »

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| June 18, 2014
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PA Official promises termination of unity-gov’t if Hamas guilty of kidnapping

 

As both factions skeptical of the other, PA considers seizure of Hamas assets.  A PA source leaked: “The more evidence is collected, the more it appears that Hamas betrayed the trust it was given & that the organization exploited the reconciliation agreement to throw sand in our eyes.”

By Daniel Siryoti & Shlomo Cesana

 

Tensions between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, following the abduction of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank, have reached a critical lack of trust that threatens to dismantle the Palestinian unity government and delay the implementation of the sides’ reconciliation pact.

The new Palestinian unity government was sworn in two weeks ago – Photo: Reuters

The crisis, according to a senior source in Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ bureau, began after Abbas ordered his security forces to increase cooperation with Israeli security forces to help locate the three missing teens.

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| June 17, 2014
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A Moment of Lucidity? Norway Delays Meeting of Int’l Funding for PA

Norway explains that ‘the present situation is not conducive’ to a AHLC donor meeting, in light of the kidnapping by Palestinian Authority ‘unity partner’ Hamas.

By Ari Yashar

 

Norway announced Tuesday that it was delaying the meeting of an international donor group for the Palestinian Authority (PA), planned for next week, in light of the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers last Thursday by Hamas terrorists.

The Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC), which is responsible for coordinating international funding of the PA and is chaired by Norway, was set to meet in Oslo on June 25.

“The situation is not conducive to having an AHLC meeting at this point,” Norwegian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Frode Andersen told AFP. Continue Reading »

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| June 17, 2014
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5th Day of Operation ‘Bring Back Our Brothers’: IDF arrest 200, cleaning house in Nablus

 

Israel’s search for missing Jewish teens enters 5th day, with additional arrests, now totaling 200.

Senior IDF source: We’re expanding search area &’cleaning house’ in ‘terror capital of Nablus.’

By Yoav Zitun

 

Operation ‘Bring Back Our Brothers’ is entering its fifth day Tuesday, with over 200 Palestinians arrested, 41 of which overnight, as the search for Eyal Yifrach, Gil-Ad Shaer and Naftali Frenkel continues.

IDF forces in Nablus, Monday night (Photo: IDF Spokesman)

IDF forces in Nablus, Monday night – Photo: IDF Spokesman

The three teens were apparently kidnapped Thursday night and no group or organization has made any accepted claims of responsibility for the abduction. The working conclusion is that Hamas operatives kidnapped the teens though it is unclear if the organization’s leadership sanctioned the attack. Continue Reading »

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| June 17, 2014
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New emergency app being developed in Israel to help tackle kidnapping

In light of recent kidnapping, smart-phone technology reportedly being engineered to enable emergency distress button to alert authorities, without having to place call.

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A new smartphone app to help people from getting kidnapped is currently being developed in Israel, Channel 2 reported Monday.

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Smartphone. – Photo: REUTERS

As Israeli police and security forces search for three missing Israeli teenagers, believed to be kidnapped in the West Bank – the Shomron Regional Council is working on an app that will enable people in danger to report their location to authorities, without actually picking up the phone and placing a call. Continue Reading »

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| June 16, 2014
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Does Abbas, the PLO or PA Really Oppose Abduction of Jews?

 

Palestinian Authority leader Abbas finally condemned the abduction of 3 Jewish teens, but it doesn’t appear to be sincere.

By Ryan Jones

 

 

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas on Monday finally condemned last Thursday’s abduction of three Israeli youth by Palestinian terrorists. But, can Israel take seriously the belated condemnation?

Disgusting: Cartoon compares kidnapped Israeli boys to rats
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First, it should be noted that Abbas also condemned Israel’s military efforts to find and rescue the kidnapped boys, thereby drawing moral equivalence between the abduction and Israel’s reaction to it.

Abbas’ remarks echoed a statement issued a day earlier by his foreign ministry, which accused Israel of launching a “fierce attack against the Palestinian people,” and all but justified the abduction of the three Jewish youths because they are “settlers” whose presence in Judea and Samaria is “illegal.” Continue Reading »

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| June 16, 2014
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Jerusalem baffled at EU refusal to make kidnapping condemnation

While the int’l community had condemned the kidnapping of 3 Jewish Israeli youths by Sunday, Catherine Ashton’s office at the EU has yet to issue any statement.

 

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, June 20, 2013. Photo: REUTERS/Abir Sultan/Pool

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton’s failure to quickly condemn the kidnappings of Naphtali Fraenkel, Gil-Ad Shaer and Eyal Yifrach has “not gone unnoticed,” diplomatic sources in Jerusalem said on Monday.

Meeting of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with EU Foreign Commissioner Catherine Ashton in Jerusalem. January 26, 2012 – Photo: Amos Ben Gershom, GPO

The officials said that while the US, Canada, Great Britain, Spain, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the International Committee of the Red Cross all condemned the kidnappings by Sunday, as of Monday afternoon there was no statement from Ashton or her office. Continue Reading »

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| June 16, 2014
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Young relative of Palestinian MK condemns Israeli teens’ abductors & PA

Nazareth teen Mohammad Zoabi, relative of controversial Israel Knesset Member & Palestinian Arab, Hanin Zoabi, calls the PA a terrorist organization and urges fellow Israeli Arabs to embrace Israel as Jewish state.

By Hassan Shaalan

 

 

A video has emerged of an Arab teenager from Nazareth condemning the Palestinian Authority as a terrorist organization and calling on the kidnappers of three Israeli Jewish teens to free them immediately. What makes the video even more unusual is that it was made by Mohammad Zoabi, the 16-year-old relative of controversial Arab MK Hanin Zoabi.

Nazareth teen Mohammad Zoabi – Facebook

The video, filmed in English, Hebrew and Arabic, has drawn thousands of angry responses, including one from Mohammad’s parliamentarian relative. Continue Reading »

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| June 16, 2014
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Former MK Demands Death Penalty Instatement, Executions of Jailed Terrorists Hourly

Ex-MK Ben-Ari suggests executions of convicted terrorists every hour until kidnapped Jewish teens are returned, “A hanging every hour in the streets like they do in the Arab countries, this is how they do things.”

By Ari Yashar

 

There was talk on Sunday among MKs and former MKs suggesting that the time has come to apply the Israeli death penalty law to terrorists, given the kidnapping last Thursday night of three teenage students.

Construction and Housing Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) on Sunday called for the death penalty law to be acted upon.

“The death penalty appears in the laws, but has only been used one time in the state’s history against (Nazi leader) Adolf Eichmann,” Ariel said, adding that he thinks the law should be applied against terrorists as well, reports Walla! Continue Reading »

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| June 16, 2014
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Hamas orders Palestinians to erase all security camera tapes

 

PA President Abbas’ office orders all Palestinian security forces to relay any information that could be useful in returning the kidnapped Jewish teens to the IDF.

Islamic Jihad member calls PA coordination with the IDF “akin to betrayal.”

By Daniel Siryoti

 

The Palestinian Authority security forces and Israel Defense Forces are coordinating their efforts and have a constant open line of communication in the search of the three kidnapped Israeli teens in Hebron, a senior Palestinian security official said.

Sweets are handed out in Gaza to celebrate the kidnapping of three Israeli teens – Photo: AFP

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ office ordered the Palestinian security forces to relay all information that could be useful in finding the kidnapped teens to the IDF.

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| June 16, 2014
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Rabbi Aviner: To dissuade terror, Israel must institute death penalty

Due to danger of kidnapping, leading rabbis call for people to refrain from hitch hiking around the settlements of Judea & Samaria.

One of the leading national-religious figures in the national-religious community Rabbi Shlomo Aviner called on Sunday for the imposition of the death penalty for Palestinians involved in terror activity as a way of preventing future kidnappings and other terrorist attacks.

Rabbi Shlomo Aviner

Rabbi Shlomo Aviner – Photo: Courtesy

Speaking to The Jerusalem Post, Aviner, who heads the Ateret Yerushalayim yeshiva in the Old City of Jerusalem and is the rabbi of the Beit El settlement, said that the solution to the issue of kidnappings could not simply be particularistic, but must address root causes. Continue Reading »

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| June 16, 2014
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Following firefight IDF arrests 2 Hamas terrorists in Hebron

 

Loud explosion heard after soldiers instructed the residents to exit building.

Palestinian sources reported casualties among the residents of a home identified belonging to Hamas agents.

By Elior Levy

 

The IDF surrounded a house in the Hebron area on Sunday night apparently in connection to the search for three abducted Israeli teens. The move reportedly led to the arrest of two Hamas activists.

IDF soldiers surround a building in Hebron. (Photo: IDF Spokeperson's Unit)

IDF soldiers surround a building in Hebron. – Photo: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit

Palestinian sources told Ynet that a loud explosion rocked the area, most likely caused by soldiers destroying the door to the structure. The sources also reported casualties among the residents. Continue Reading »

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