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| June 15, 2014
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Kerry looks at Hamas as kidnappers of 3 Jewish teens in Israel

U.S. secretary of state recommends full cooperation between Palestinian security forces and Israeli to return teens.

Worldwide condemnations made for kidnapping.

 

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry condemned Sunday the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank, adding that “many indications point to Hamas’ involvement.”

John Kerry

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Lebanon. June 4th, 2014. – Photo: AP

In a statement to the press, Kerry called for the immediate release of the three victims, who went missing Thursday from the Gush Etzion cluster of settlements, and stated that the United States is still “seeking details on the parties responsible.”

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| June 15, 2014
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IDF: Reserves Soldiers Inducted as Iron Dome Deploys in South

 

The IDF moves up a notch to rescue the 3 kidnapped young Israelis in West Bank by calling up reserves and preparing anti-rocket batteries in southern Israel. 

 

The IDF has called up a limited number of reserves as the military operation to rescue three kidnapped Israelis in the West Bank continues to grow. The call up is small in scope at this stage.
Iron Dome

Iron Dome – Photo: IDF Spokesperson

Also on Sunday, the air force deployed a number of Iron Dome anti-rocket batteries in southern Israel.

The IDF arrested 80 Hamas members – including members of the Palestinian Legislative Council – in a massive wave of raids throughout the West Bank early on Sunday, as part of Israel’s response to the kidnapping of three Israeli youths on Thursday. Continue Reading »

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| June 15, 2014
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Special Security Update: IDF preparing for siege of Hebron to #BringBackOurBoys

 

IDF soldiers unload concrete barricades and spread out bulldozers in preparation to impose total closure on one of the Palestinians largest cities.

By Yoav Zitun & Elior Levy

 

The IDF is making preparations for the siege of Hebron, as part of a massive manhunt led following the kidnapping of three Israeli teens who disappeared while hitchhiking in the West Bank on Thursday night.

IDF forces setting up concrete barricades at entrance to Hebron

IDF forces setting up concrete barricades at entrance to Hebron

IDF forces have loaded concrete barricades on trucks and spread out bulldozers in the city. In addition, Palestinian sources reported Sunday that all the main entrances to the city were blocked by the IDF with concrete blocks. Continue Reading »

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| June 15, 2014
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Sick Disgusting Fatah Cartoon Mocking Kidnapped Jewish Teens as ‘Rats’

Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas’s official Fatah Facebook page posts cartoon portraying abducted Jewish students as rats.

By Ari Soffer

 

The official Facebook page Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party has posted a cartoon comparing the three kidnapped Israeli students to rats.

The post on the “Palestinian National Liberation Movement “Fatah” / Central Page” shows three rats with Stars of David dangling from a fishing rod; its implications are unmistakable.

The sickening cartoon illustrates the mixed messages sent by the PA; on the one hand, Abbas promised to help Israel find the abducted teens – even as a senior PA official denied his administration would take any responsibility for the kidnappings. Continue Reading »

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| June 14, 2014
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IDF’s working assumption is the 3 students, who are feared kidnapped, are alive

 

Defense Ministry deployed 2,000 IDF Paratroopers & Kfir soldiers who could quarantine area where the three missing teens disappeared.

By Yoav Zitun

 

The names of the three missing teenagers were cleared for publication on Saturday afternoon. The teens are Eyal Yifrah, 19, from Elad, Gil-Ad Sha’ar, 16 from Talmon and Naftali Frenkel, 16, from Nof Ayalon.

Left to right: Eyal Yifrah, Naftali Frenkel and Gil-Ad Shayer

Left to right: Eyal Yifrah, Naftali Frenkel and Gil-Ad Shayer

Earlier, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said the working assumption was that the three students, who are feared kidnapped, are alive.

In the first public statement the defense minister gave since the three teens disappeared, he said: “As long as we don’t know differently, our working assumption is that they are alive.” Continue Reading »

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| June 14, 2014
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PA offers to assist Israel as Netanyahu tells Kerry ‘Unity gov’t is to blame for abduction’

 

Israel’s Prime Minister blasts Hamas and Abbas over Thursday’s kidnapping of 3 Jewish youths as Palestinian official reports PA will help find them.

By i24news

 

The cause of the suspected kidnapping of the three Yeshiva students who went missing in the West Bank Thursday is the announcement and the subsequent formation of the unity government between Fatah and the Gaza Strip-based Hamas, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday.

Israeli soldiers of the Jewish Ultra-Orthodox battalion 'Netzah Yehuda' take part in their annual unit training in the Israeli annexed Golan Heights, near the Syrian border, on May 19, 2014 ( Menahem Kahana (AFP/File) )

Israeli soldiers of the Jewish Ultra-Orthodox battalion ‘Netzah Yehuda’  in the Golan Heights, near the Syrian border, on May 19, 2014 – Photo: Menahem Kahana -AFP/File

“This is the direct outcome of allowing a murderous terrorist organization enter the Palestinian government,” the Netanyahu told US Secretary of State John Kerry, as Israeli apprised the US of progress in the hunt for the youths. Continue Reading »

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| June 13, 2014
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Three Jewish Students Kidnapped by Arab Terrorists in Judea

— SPECIAL SECURITY REPORT —

 

Three Jewish students from a religious kibbutz Kfar Etzion, were kidnapped by Arab terrorists then taken away in their car.

 Student cell phone signal located one in Hevron.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Three students of the Makor Chaim Yeshiva in the religious kibbutz Kfar Etzion were kidnapped by terrorists on Thursday night.

IDF forces conducted an extensive search

IDF forces conducted an extensive search – IDF Spokesperson Unit

All communication was lost with them as they were on their way home from the yeshiva, located roughly between Jerusalem and Hevron in Judea; security sources say they were taken into a vehicle driven by terrorists that stopped for them as they waited at a hitchhiking post. Continue Reading »

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| June 2, 2014
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Shin Bet prevents 11 kidnapping plots originating from inside Israel’s prisons

 

Israel’s state security, the Shin Bet, explain how incarcerated Palestinian inmates instruct other terrorists on how to kidnap Israeli soldiers or citizens so as to secure their own release in a negotiated prisoner exchange.

By Ynet reporters

The Shin Bet and Israel Prison Authority have exposed and thwarted 11 attempts of Palestinian security prisoners to orchestrate kidnappings from inside Israeli jails, it was cleared for publishing on Sunday.

The prisoners, from Fatah, Hamas and other Islamic organizations, instructed other terrorists to try to kidnap Israeli soldiers and citizens to secure their own release in a prisoner exchange deal.

The Shin Bet said the investigation into these incidents was still ongoing. Continue Reading »

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| May 23, 2014
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Palestinian terrorist admits attempted kidnapping of Jews in northern Israel

 

West Bank native also admits to throwing Molotov cocktails at passing cars

Police & Shin Bet stress danger posed by Palestinian infiltrators, urge immediate repairs of breaches in security fence.

Daniel Siryoti and Lilach Shoval

 

A Palestinian infiltrator arrested in a joint operation by the Shin Bet and the Central Investigative Unit of the Northern District Police has admitted to trying to kidnap Israelis. Murad Mahmoud Hassan Ali-Hassin, 25, from the Palestinian village of Kabatiya, near Jenin, has also been accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at civilian cars in the western Galilee, as well as several other security crimes.

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| March 18, 2014
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Hezbollah: Golan Attack on IDF Jeep was Kidnapping Attempt

A Hezbollah sources reported that the explosion on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights Tuesday that injured 4 IDF soldiers was a failed kidnapping attempt.

By Uzi Baruch

 

Hezbollah sources said Tuesday that an explosion on the Golan Heights that injured four IDF soldiers had been an attempt to kidnap soldiers. The kidnapping attempt was reported by Al-Manar television, a Lebanese news outlet associated with Hezbollah. The reported quoted Hezbollah sources as saying that although the attempt failed “this time, we are sure we will succeed in the near future.”

Reports said that the IDF was investigating whether the soldiers were injured when they got out of the jeep. Continue Reading »

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| December 4, 2013
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3 Palestinian Arabs hijack car with baby in back

 

After mother is forced out of car she calls husband. Then father with friend enter hostile Arab village, finds his car abandoned with daughter sitting safely inside.

Father: ‘I wasn’t scared. I was only thinking about one thing – my daughter’s life’.

By Akiva Novick

Three Palestinian men hijacked a Dolev resident’s car Tuesday, when in the back seat sat her three-month-old daughter.

The car that was hijacked (Photo: Police Spokesperson)

The car that was hijacked – Photo: Police Spokesperson

The baby’s life was saved due the father’s resourcefulness, who found his daughter in the car, abandoned, between two hostile villages.

The incident happened in the Binyamin Hills Tuesday afternoon, around 4 pm. Continue Reading »

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| July 8, 2013
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Muslim Brotherhood Kidnap Two Egyptian Soldiers After ‘Massacre’

Abducted soldiers were coerced to making pro-Morsi statements on a loudspeaker even as one was being badly beaten.

By Gil Ronen

 

Armed supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi kidnapped two Egyptian soldiers in the Ain Shams area of Cairo, an Al Arabiya correspondent reported Monday.

Morsi supporters gather outside a Republican Guard building in Cairo – Reuters

 

An army official, cited by state news agency MENA, confirmed the news, adding that the soldiers were pushed into a vehicle and forced to make pro-Morsi and anti-military statements on a loudspeaker.

Identifying the two as Samir Abdallah Ali and Azzam Hazem Ali, the military spokesman added that one soldier was “severely beaten” even as he was making the pro-Morsi statements. Continue Reading »

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| June 5, 2013
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Female Soldiers’ Kidnap Attempt Unsuccessful

Police are searching for two Arab men suspected of attempted kidnapping of 3 soldiers from a base near Hadera.

By Maayana Miskin

 

Female soldiers serving at a base near Hadera reported Tuesday night that two Arab men attempted to kidnap them.

Female soldiers Photo Hagai Huberman

Female soldiers – Photo: Hagai Huberman

The Arab men reportedly attempted to drag three soldiers into a car by force.

Police are searching the area. They suspect that terrorists may be behind the attempted kidnapping.

In recent months terrorist groups have made several attempts to kidnap Israeli soldiers and civilians in order to barter for the release of terrorists imprisoned in Israel. Continue Reading »

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| May 18, 2013
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Egyptian Security keeps Gaza border closed

Egyptian Policeman say the crossing will remain closed until the 7 remaining kidnapped hostages that were taken by Islamic militants from the Sinai are freed.

They’re also demanding that the Interior Minister comes to listen to security concerns.

By REUTERS

 

 

CAIRO – Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen kept a crossing into the Gaza Strip closed again on Saturday, stranding hundreds of Palestinian travellers, witnesses said.

Palestinian baby sleeps next to his mother at the Rafah crossing with Egypt in Gaza, May 17, 2013

Palestinian baby sleeps next to his mother at the Rafah crossing with Egypt in Gaza, May 17, 2013 – Photo: REUTERS

The protest began on Friday when police strung barbed wire across the Rafah border post and chained up the gates, local residents said, a day after the abductions. Continue Reading »

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| May 18, 2013
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It’s no Secret. Even the Sinai Bedouin Say: It Was Better Under Israeli Rule

The Sinai Bedouin blame Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood’s interior ministry for the kidnappings in the region saying: ‘We’ve already paid a price for Israel returning the land.’

By Elad Benari, Canada

 

Bedouin tribes in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula implied on Thursday that they were better off living under Israeli rule and that they have been suffering since Israel withdrew from the region as part of the peace agreement with Egypt.

Desert tourism – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

The residents of the Sinai spoke to the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram, after local tribesmen kidnapped seven Egyptian security personnel near the city of El-Arish.

The seven were kidnapped by an unknown group in north Sinai while en route to Cairo. Continue Reading »

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