New details have emerged about links between Hussam Kawasme, arrested recently over the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens in June, and the Hamas terror group.
According to police documents cited by the New York Times and Israeli media, Kawasme told police that he had received money for the kidnapping and murder from Hamas.
Kawasme told interrogators he bought the weapons used in the killings and transferred them to Marwan Kawasme and Amer Abu Aysha, thought to be behind the killing and still at large, according to the reports.
An Israeli soldier patrols near the area where the bodies of three Israeli teenagers were found, in the village of Halhul, near the West Bank city of Hebron, Tuesday, July 1, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Majdi Mohammed)
Kawasme also said he helped bury the teens — Naftali Fraenkel, Gil-ad Sha’ar and Eyal Yifrach — on land he had recently purchased.
The bodies of the three teens were found on June 30 near the West Bank town of Halhul, outside Hebron, after an intense 17-day manhunt following their abduction late on June 12.
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