Israel’s military found the bodies of three missing Israeli teenager sesttlers on June 30, 2014 – two weeks after they were abducted in the West Bank, allegedly by Hamas militants. Israeli air strikes hit 34 sites in Gaza as fears rose that Israel would punish Hamas by increasing military action in the strip.
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Palestinians sit outside the family home of an alleged abductor after Israeli troops set off an explosion on the top floor in the West Bank City of Hebron July 1, 2014. Ammar Awad/Reuters -
People gather at the partially burned home of Amar Abu Eisha, one of the two suspects wanted for the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers, after the Israeli army set fire to the building in the West Bank village of Halhoul, near Hebron. The two suspects are still at large. Abed Al Hashlamoun/EPA -
Nadia Abu Eisha, the mother of Amer Abu Eisha, a Palestinian member of the Islamist Hamas in Hebron named by Israel as one of the two prime suspects in the murder of three kidnapped Israeli teenagers. Hazem Bader/AFP Photo -
A relative inspects the house of Amer Abu Eishe. Israel has vowed to make Hamas pay for the murders, but the Islamist movement warned any reprisal attacks would open ‘the gates of hell’. Hazem Bader/AFP Photo -
An Israeli soldier blocks a road in the village of Halhul, near the West Bank town of Hebron. Majdi Mohammed/AP Photo -
Women weep during a memorial service for three teenage boys kidnapped in Israel near the United Nations headquarters in New York June 30, 2014. Israeli forces found the bodies of Eyal Yifrach, 19, Gilad Shaar, 16, and Naftali Fraenkel, 16 in the occupied West Bank on Monday after nearly three weeks of searching. Lucas Jackson/Reuters -
An Israeli soldier stands guard near the West Bank city of Hebron. Mussa Qawasma/Reuters
In pictures: tensions rise in West Bank as Israel hunts for murderers
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