Palestinians, Israeli troops clash in teens search
Israeli soldiers search for three missing Israeli teens believed to have been abducted in the West Bank, in the village of Taffouh near the West Bank city of Hebron, Wednesday, June 18, 2014. Israeli troops rearrested 51 former Palestinian prisoners released in 2011 from Israeli prisons in exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit who had been captured by Gaza militants, the military said Wednesday, bringing the total number of Palestinians arrested since the teens’ disappearance to 240. AP
JERUSALEM — The Israeli military says soldiers clashed with Palestinians during an arrest raid that was part of a weeklong search for three missing teens believed to have been abducted in the West Bank.
The military says Palestinians in the town of Jenin and an adjacent refugee camp on Thursday threw homemade explosives and stones at soldiers who then opened fire.
It was the most violent confrontation since thousands of Israeli soldiers first fanned out across the West Bank a week in search of the teens. Israel has blamed the Islamic militant Hamas group for the abduction, but has not provided evidence.
In all, troops have rounded up 280 Palestinians, most of them from Hamas. Overnight, 30 more Palestinians were detained.
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