Withholding evidence in its possession suggesting that the teens had been killed immediately until 1 July , Israel launched Operation Brother 's Keeper , a large-scale crackdown of what it called Hamas 's terrorist infrastructure and personnel in the West Bank , ostensibly aimed at securing the release of the kidnapped teenagers . During the operation , 11 Palestinians were killed and 51 wounded in 369 Israeli incursions into the West Bank through to 2 July , and between 350 and 600 Palestinians , including nearly all of Hamas 's West Bank leaders , were arrested . Among those arrested were many people who had only recently been freed under the terms of the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange . Israeli military spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner defended the arrests , stating that Hamas members had carried out 60 abduction attempts on Israelis in the West Bank " in the last year and a half " , and that " Hamas does not need to give a direct order . " The arrests yielded no information about the abduction . Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch stated that certain aspects of the operation amounted to collective punishment , and B'tselem said in a press release that the actions have caused " disproportionate harm to the basic rights of Palestinians " . During the course of the operation , Israel said it had uncovered a Hamas plot to launch a massive wave of violence throughout the West Bank , with the goal of overthrowing the Palestinian Authority . The purported coup plotters were arrested and their weapons stockpiles were seized On 30 June , search teams found the bodies of the three missing teenagers near Hebron . After their burial , an anti-Arab riot broke out , and a Palestinian teenager was murdered in revenge . His killing sparked Arab rioting . Israel police arrested six suspects belonging to the Beitar Jerusalem F.C. supporters ' group La Familia and charged three of them with murder
Palestinian teenager was murdered in revenge
Kidnapping and murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir
2014 Israel–Gaza conflict