The bodies of three missing Israeli teenagers were based in the occupied West Bank, and Israel vowed to punish Hamas, the Palestinian group it accuses of abducting and killing them. "These were kidnapped and murdered coldly by beasts," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a very statement after the military discovered on Monday the remains with the Jewish seminary students who disappeared on June 12. "Hamas is responsible and Hamas will pay," he was quoted saying. U.S. President Obama condemned the killings but called on both sides to exercise restraint. Netanyahu, who previously Monday held Hamas responsible for new rocket strikes from Gaza, convened his security cabinet to take into consideration moves resistant to the Islamist group, that's neither confirmed nor denied Israel's allegations regarding the kidnapping. The senior ministers ended their late-night session without taking any final decisions and prefer to reconvene later on Tuesday, a government official said. "Netanyahu's threats against Gaza and against Hamas will not frighten us," the movement's Gaza-based leader, Ismail Haniyeh, was quoted as saying by its Al-Quds TV station. At the square in Tel Aviv where Israeli Pm Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated in 1995, many Israelis lit memorial candles for that teenagers, daily after thousands attended a prayer vigil for him or her in the same spot. Hamas may be rocked with the arrest of many its activists in an Israeli military sweep under western culture Bank over the past 3 weeks during a seek out the teenagers that Israel said has also been geared towards weakening the militant movement As much as six Palestinians died on account of the Israeli operation, local residents said. The kidnapping, near funds in the western world Bank, appalled Israelis who rallied behind the children' families in the display of national unity similar to times of war or national crisis in a very country with deep political and religious divisions. "For the people of Israel, I wish to tell their dear families ... our hearts are bleeding, the entire nation is weeping along with you," Netanyahu said in the statement. The bodies of Gil-Ad Shaer and U.S.-Israeli national Naftali Fraenkel, both 16, and Eyal Yifrah, 19, were present in an area near Hebron, a militant stronghold, a little way from your road where these were shown to are actually abducted while hitchhiking, security officials said.
