RAMALLAH West Bank (Reuters) - The kidnapping of three Jewish teenagers may mark the emergence of Hamas as a force in the occupied West Bank after years under the thumb of both Israeli and Palestinian authorities.
Israel has been mounting a crackdown against members of the Islamist group in the territory, arresting more than 200, since the Jewish seminary students went missing near a settlement on Thursday.
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