Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) leaves after delivering a statement during a joint news conference with Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon (L) and Lieutenant-General Benny Gantz (not seen) in Tel Aviv June 14, 2014.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday blamed Palestinian militants from the Hamas Islamist group for the abduction of three Israeli teenagers in the occupied West Bank, Army Radio reported.
"They were kidnapped by Hamas people. There will be severe consequences," Netanyahu was quoted by the radio as saying at a cabinet meeting in Tel Aviv.
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