Three Israeli seminary students (from L-R) Naftali Frankel, who also holds U.S. citizenship, Gil-ad Sha'er and Eyal Yifrach are seen in this combination picture of undated family handout photos released June 16, 2014. REUTERS/Family Handout
RAMALLAH West Bank (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepared Israel for a long drawn-out operation to find three missing teenagers as troops expanded the search into a crackdown on the Islamist group accused of abducting them and arrested dozens of its officials.
Israel says members of Hamas, which signed a unity deal with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in April, kidnapped the three seminary students, who disappeared on Thursday after leaving a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank.
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