Israeli jets attack targets in West Bank
JERUSALEM – Israel on Tuesday mourned the deaths of three teenagers who had been kidnapped over two weeks ago, as the air force targeted dozens of locations in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army said, in a surge of violence that followed the discovery of the teens’ bodies.
Israeli troops also shot dead a Palestinian man in the West Bank, where the teens disappeared on June 12.
Hundreds of people participated in separate memorial services in the hometowns of the three teens – Eyal Yifrah, 19, Gilad Shaar, 16, and Naftali Fraenkel, a 16-year-old with dual Israeli-American citizenship – ahead of a joint funeral. The bodies were to be laid to rest together in Modiin.
Associated Press
