‘Noose tightening around kidnappers, teens still in West Bank’
senior Israeli government official said Friday that the noose was tightening around the kidnappers of the three teenagers who were abducted last Thursday from a hitchhiking post in the Gush Etzion area in the West Bank, as a large-scale, ongoing IDF operation to locate the trio continued through its eight day.
Speaking to Channel 10, the official said that, based on security assessments, the teens were still somewhere in the West Bank and that their abductors were unsuccessful in moving them in the direction of Jordan, Gaza, or Sinai.
Troops were concentrated in large numbers in an area close to Hebron on Friday night, with soldiers searching house-to-house, with the area closed off to outside traffic.
Naftali Frankel, Gil-ad Shaar and Eyal Yifrach were last seen last Thursday night. Several Palestinian groups have taken responsibility of their abduction but the authenticity of the claims are questionable.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/noose-tightening-around-kidnappers-teens-still-in-west-bank/
