Kidnappers heard whooping, singing in full emergency call recording

The full recording of the call made by one of the kidnapped youths to the emergency police hotline is released, less than a day after police lifted the gag order on a 49-second clip from it.

In the full recording, the kidnappers can be heard singing in Arabic and whooping after what are presumably shots ring out in the car.

In the 49-second recording released by police yesterday, one of the teens, identified by Bat-Galim and Ofir Shaar as their son Gilad, can be heard whispering “They’ve kidnapped me” to the operator before the kidnappers shout at him in Arabic-accented Hebrew, “Keep your heads down.”

The operator tries to interact with the caller, said to have been Gil-ad Shaar, but receives no answer. Seconds later, several loud noises, which might be gunshots, are heard. Someone in the car is heard groaning.

The shorter recording ends with the sound of a Hebrew radio interview blaring in the car.

In the full recording, which is over two minutes long, the sound of the radio is interrupted by a voice on the phone — a different operator, this time a policewoman, who asks the caller where he is.

However, this operator, too, receives no answer. Instead, more loud noises — presumably gunshots — are heard.

When the noises die down, one of the kidnappers shouts “Three!” in Arabic. He and his accomplice can then be heard singing happily in Arabic and whooping, before the recording ends.