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Palestinians resist Israeli snatch squads

ISRAELI snatch squads met resistance from Palestinians today as they roamed the occupied West Bank arresting more Hamas activists in a search for three missing teenagers.

Three Palestinians were wounded in overnight clashes in Jenin and Nablus.

The Israeli military said about 300 Palestinians “hurled explosives and opened fire,” as they confronted soldiers who entered Jenin ostensibly looking for the missing seminary students.

“The soldiers responded with live fire,” the military said.

It added that 30 “terror suspects” had been detained in the West Bank, bringing to 280 the number taken into custody over the past week.

Israel claims that Hamas activists abducted the missing students last Thursday but it has been unashamed of and explicit in its two-fold objectives of the exercise — to find the missing settler youths and deal a substantial blow to Hamas.

The raids have developed from house-to-house searches in Hebron, where the three went missing, to snatch missions across the West Bank.

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