Israeli security forces have found the bodies of three missing teenagers in the occupied West Bank after a nearly three-week search, Radio New Zealand report.
The three went missing on 12 June near a settlement in the occupied West Bank.
The bodies of Gil-Ad Shaer and US-Israeli national Naftali Fraenkel, both 16, and Eyal Yifrah, 19, were found in a field near Hebron, a militant stronghold and the hometown of two Hamas members identified by Israel as the kidnappers and still at large, security officials said.
3 teenagers kidnapped and murdered by Hamas for no reason at all! Disgrace, thoughts with their families and Israel pic.twitter.com/Te6n563Qpu
— David (@dlyons24) June 30, 2014
The teens had apparently been shot soon after having been abducted while hitchhiking, officials said
“They were under a pile of rocks, in an open field,” said Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Lerner, a military spokesman.
Israeli media said the break in the case came after the relatives of the alleged abductors were interrogated. A large number of troops gathered at the spot - in the general area where the teenagers disappeared - to recover the bodies.
