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Israel's nearly three-week vigil for three teens kidnapped in the West Bank � including one with U.S. citizenship � ended grimly Monday, with the discovery of their bodies just north of Hebron.

The search for Eyal Yifrach, 19; Gilad Shaar, 16; and Naftali Frenkel, also 16, who were snatched while hitchhiking, ended even as Israeli forces were conducting raids in the West Bank, where Hamas operates. Frenkel holds dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship.

Killed and buried in a shallow grave. One of the 16 year old boys was also a US citizen.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised a strong response to the killing of three Israeli teens abducted from a highway junction outside of the West Bank settlement of Kfar Etzion on June 12.

The Israeli security cabinet is meeting to weigh possible responses to the teens' murders. Netanyahu ordered an extensive air campaign in the Gaza Strip in late 2012 in response to rocket attacks originating in the Hamas-controlled coastal area. While the campaign resulted in the deaths of several high-ranking Hamas operatives, including Hamas military chief Ahmed Jabari, the campaign ceased amid international pressure � and resulted in Israel lightening its control of goods and people entering the Strip.

So any large-scale action comes with risk. And for now there's still a chance that the kidnapping was the work of rogue Hamas cells, rather than a conspiracy ordered by the organization's top leadership.

"I don't think that we know enough to say anything conclusively as of yet," an IDF source told Business Insider. "We do know that the two suspects and their support staff are Hamas operatives, Hamas activists and Hamas affiliates. There's no question there. Is this part of something larger? That's still something that we're looking at."

The discovery of the three bodies comes less than 24 hours after a barrage of rockets were fired from the Strip with Hamas' explicit blessing � the first such sanctioned attacks since 2012. Monday's news is the latest potential point of escalation between Israel and Hamas, which recently entered a U.S.-funded unity government with Fatah, a rival Palestinian faction.

On his Facebook page, Netanyahu was clear in assigning responsibility. He wrote that the three were "murdered in cold blood by human animals," and he promised that "Hamas is responsible, and Hamas will pay."

And Obama will do nothing about that.

Not true. Ze ro will promise to bring the perps to America for trial.

I wonder what amount of money the kenyan will want to be giving to Hamas for this 'job well done'?

And Obama will do nothing about that.

Its prolly a scam just like the Holocaust, right Ghost, TRH? Anyways, they're only Jews, so what is the big deal (at least on the premises of Ghost, TRH and Ol Toot).