Eliyahu Asheri Executed

Via JPost: we learn very sad news.

The Popular Resistance Committees said early Thursday that it executed 18-year-old Eliyahu Asheri, an Israeli settler kidnapped earlier in the week in the West Bank.
The group, which has links to the ruling Hamas, had threatened to execute the Israeli if Israel did not halt its invasion of Gaza.

Earlier Wednesday, Israel’s fears came true Wednesday when a spokesman for the PRC in the Gaza Strip revealed an authentic copy of missing teenager Asheri’s identity card to the press, confirming claims that he had been kidnapped. n an effort to garner information about Asheri’s whereabouts, the police’s elite counterterrorist squad raided a home in Ramallah in the afternoon and arrested a fugitive. Publication of his identity was barred.

While the PRC gave no indication as to Asheri’s well-being, it reiterated an earlier threat to kill him if the IDF did not immediately withdraw its forces from the Gaza Strip.

A spokesman for the group told Al-Jazeera that Asheri, 18, would be “butchered in front of TV cameras” if the IDF operation in Gaza did not stop. “Our patience is running out,” he said.

The IDF has arrested nine Hamas leaders, including the deputy prime minister and three other cabinet members.
Hot Air has all the details.

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