Abstract
AbstractOn 12 June 2014, three Israeli students at ‘yeshivas’ (religious schools) on the West Bank were kidnapped by some Palestinians who were not members of Hamas which was nevertheless blamed for the deaths. Some Israeli extremists promptly kidnapped and burned alive a Palestinian teenager in revenge, to the outrage of the Palestinians. Meanwhile, Israel, searching for the murderers of the three Israelis, arrested hundreds of Hamas officials in the West Bank and closed their offices. In Gaza, militants began firing rockets at Israel which, on 8th July, responded by launching ‘Operation Protective Edge’. This involved the disproportionate and indiscriminate shelling of buildings in Gaza including many private homes, as the Israeli Defence Force claimed that rockets were being fired from them or kept there.
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