More arrested as Israel searches for missing teens
 

Jerusalem/Ramallah, June 18 (IANS) A massive military operation to find three Jewish teens allegedly abducted by militants in the West Bank last week continued Wednesday with the arrests of dozens of Palestinians. Israeli forces arrested 65 Palestinians in overnight raids across the West Bank and 51 of them are Hamas members who were previously incarcerated in Israeli jails and released in exchange for an Israeli soldier in 2011, Xinhua reported citing the Israeli army. In total, the Israeli military has arrested some 240 Palestinians, the majority of them Hamas members, in a ****** of raids which the army dubbed "Operation Brother's Keeper", an effort to locate the teens who studied at a religious seminary and disappeared while hitchhiking in the West Bank June 12 night. The Israeli army raided over 800 locations, storming through Palestinian homes and searching public institutions, confiscating hundreds of ******* along the way, according to the army.

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