Cabinet meet Netanyahu on missing teens; interview with mother of missing; army searches

Описание: (22 Jun 2014) As the search for three missing Israeli teenagers entered its tenth day on Sunday, the family of one of the victims has told of their anguish at no new developments.
Rachelle Fraenkel's son Naftali is one of three Jewish seminary students who disappeared on June 12 while hitchhiking in the West Bank.
She said she has had trouble eating and sleeping and is praying for Naftali's return.
Israel has blamed the Islamic militant group Hamas for the teens' apparent abduction, but has offered no proof.
Over the past week, Israeli troops have searched hundreds of locations in the West Bank and arrested more than 300 Palestinians, many from Hamas.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied on Sunday that the army is using excessive force in their searches.
"We have no intention of deliberately harming anyone but our forces are acting as necessary for self-defence and from time to time there are victims or casualties," he said.
The crisis has escalated already heightened tensions between Israel and the new Palestinian government, which is meant to end a rift between the two main Palestinian factions stemming from Hamas' violent 2007 takeover of the Gaza Strip from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' forces.

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