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JERUSALEM (UPDATED) – Troops killed two Palestinians on Tuesday, September 23, that Israel had named as suspects in the June murder of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank that sparked a spiral of tit-for-tat violence, the army said.
Amer Abu Eisha and Marwan Qawasmeh, whom Israel had accused of carrying out the kidnapping and murder, were killed “in exchange of fire” in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, the army said.
The two men were located in a house in Hebron during a joint operation between the Shin Bet internal security services and the army’s anti-terror unit, a statement said, indicating that the shooting broke out during a mission to arrest them.
“They no longer pose a threat to Israeli civilians,” Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner said on Twitter, posting pictures of the two men.
The army had already partially destroyed the two men’s homes on July 1, a day after the teenagers’ bodies were found. The demolitions were completed in August.
The June abduction of Naftali Frenkel, Gilad Shaer and Eyal Yifrach from a hitchhiking stop near Hebron sparked a huge Israeli search operation in which hundreds of Palestinians were arrested and at least five killed.
Israel blamed the kidnap on militants from the Islamist Hamas movement.
The revenge killing by Jewish extremists of a Palestinian teenager in July led to a surge in tensions which helped trigger a 50-day war between Israel and Hamas in and around Gaza that ended on August 26.
Earlier this month, Israel charged the prime suspect in the teens’ kidnapping and murder, Hossam Qawasmeh, with organising and financing the operation. – Rappler.com
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