the region. ben what can you tell us? we now have confirmed the three bodies were found just north of not far from where we are have been found. the bodies of those three missing teenagers. we re told they were found in an open field, just a 15-minute drive from where they originally disappeared at 10:30 p.m. on the 12th of june. this is an area of course, just south here, south of that, hebron, those two palestinian cities have now essentially been closed off by israeli military and police. the entrance to halhu right behind me you cannot get in at this point. we also understand that friends and supporters of the families of the three teenage boys are gathering at their houses to
repercussions on the diplomatic front, and hala was saying this earlier, a national unite government between mahmud abbas party and hamas. and there will be an expectation on the part of the israeli government that many of the countries, including the united states, we swiftly recognize that unity government, will rethink it now and perhaps rescind their recognition. mr. ambassador, stand by. we now have our senior international correspondent there, joining me, ben wedeman. benefit ben wedeman, if you can hear me, tell me what you re learning about this discovery in the west bank. reporter: yeah, brooke, we re right outside the northern entrance, not far from the area where it s believed those three teenagers disappeared on the 12th of june. we have received a statement from the israeli military saying that after this extensive search that s been going on since the 12th of june, the bodies of the three teenagers were found
and found two more bodies so a total of three bodies. it s believed that they are the bodies of the three israeli teenagers who went missing on the night of the 12th of june. beat heard that the israeli prime minister after holding an emergency security cabinet meeting, he described the killers of these three teenagers as animals. he pointed the finger directly at hamas saying that hamas will pay for what has happened here. brianna? ben wedeman in hebron. thank you. president obama i should tell you has just issued a statement on the deaths saying as a father i cannot imagine the indescribable pain that the parents of these teenage boys are experiencing. the united states condemns in the strong jest possible terms this senseless act of terror against innocent youth. from the outset i an offered our full support to israel and the palestinian authority to find the perpetrators of this crime and bring them to justice.
that seems to be the first step in what we re expecting the israeli retaliation for the death of these three teenagers. their bodies were found not far from here in essentially shallow grave that was dug. it was discovered this afternoon. apparently by settlers, volunteers from a nearby settlement who came, found one body and then two more under a pile of rocks. this is a drama that began at about 1:30 on the evening of the 12th of june when these three teenagers hitchhiked rides home from a junction just north of here. may made a brief one of them made a brief phone call at about 10:30 at night saying we ve been kidnapped. that s the last that was heard of them. it now appears that they were killed shortly after the kidnapping took place. brianna? ben weedenman, thank sow so
kidnappings of three israeli teens on june 12th. ben was there covering the hamas affiliated protesters when all of a sudden, the crowd turned and a news crew found themselves getting roughed up. he was out front in jerusalem and ben, what happened? erin, we ve gone to the southern west bank city nearby where on the 12th of june those three israeli teenagers were kidnapped. we went to cover a protest by hamas members and sympathizers in solidarity with palestinian pr prisoners, some of whom have been on a hunger strike for 150 days. as we were filming this protest, there was a large security presence by the palestinian authority, and at a certain point, i heard one of the plain clothes policemen on the scene saying to another in abbic, grab that camera and grab that camera man.