Video shows scene where slain teens were found

Video has emerged showing IDF forces gathered at the field near Hebron where the bodies of three missing Israeli teens were found on Monday afternoon, Reuters reported.

The bodies of the three teens were found in an area near the village of Halhul by volunteers and troops combing the area, after 18 days of intensive searches.

In the video, a hole can be seen amid terraced scrub land.

Eyal Yifrach, 19, Naftali Fraenkel, 16, and Gil-ad Shaar, 16, were abducted on June 12 from a hitchhiking post south of Jerusalem.

The bodies were found at about 5:30 p.m. Monday, bound and partially buried, in an open field in a hard-to-access area known as Wadi Tellem near Halhul. The site is less than 20 kilometers (12 miles) from where the teens had been abducted.

Officials used a number of clues, including personal effects of the teens found at the site, to narrow down the search area.

Israeli authorities have named two Hamas members as prime suspects in the crime. Amer Abu Aysha and Marwan Kawasme, have been missing from their homes in Hebron’s Hares neighborhood ever since the kidnapping took place.

Over 400 suspects were arrested over the course of the operation, most of them belonging to Hamas.