Despite unreported, secret talks with terror organization Hamas over the last six months between Obama and Valerie Jarrett, Hamas kidnapped two Israelis and an American named Naftali Frankel.
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Palestinian militants have repeatedly threatened to kidnap Israelis, hoping to use them as bargaining chips to win the release of prisoners held by Israel.
Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon said Israel “will extract a heavy price from the Palestinian leadership” and will “do everything necessary to return the boys to their families.”
The overnight raid was concentrated in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, in the area where the youths disappeared.
A Hamas website said more than 60 of those arrested were members, including senior figures in the movement. The Israeli military also detained supporters of Islamic Jihad, a smaller Palestinian militant group.
The Palestinians’ self-rule government, which administers 38 percent of the West Bank, has insisted it is not to blame, saying the teens disappeared in territory under full Israeli control.