Hamas higher-up in Gaza pulled trigger on teens’ abduction

TIMES OF ISRAEL
by Avi Issacharoff
September 10, 2014

Abed a-Rahman Ghaminat, deported to the Strip under Gilad Shalit deal, coordinated attack with top Hamas official in Turkey. The Hamas leader responsible for sponsoring and planning the June 12 abduction of three Israeli teenagers was released from an Israeli prison during the 2011 prisoner swap for IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, and had been involved in the September 1996 killing of IDF soldier Sharon Edri, Palestinian security officials said on Wednesday.

The three teenagers were killed shortly after they were picked up from a hitchhiking post in the West Bank, south of Jerusalem.

The officials said that although the Hamas’s leadership repeatedly denied involvement in the attack, the terror organization’s military and political wings knew about the plans in advance and had approved similar activities……

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