(Ynet News) Ron Ben-Yishai - In Israel, the general consensus is that Thursday's kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers near Hebron was carried out by local Hamas operatives who had no connection to the leaders of Hamas in Gaza. Israel's security services assume that the boys are alive and still in the West Bank. Searches and arrests are carried out with the teens' safety in mind. At the same time, a counterterrorism operation is being executed against Hamas' civilian foundation in the West Bank and Jerusalem.
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