Egyptian weekly al-Ahram reports on Monday that the Hamas terrorists who murdered four Israeli Jews from Beit Haggai outside Kiryat Arba on August 31 had planned to grab the bodies and hold them in exchange for the release of other Hamas terrorists from Israeli prisons.According to the report, the terror suspects arrested by Palestinian security forces following the attacks told their interrogators that their mission was to stage a kidnapping, causing Israel to impose a mass closure of the West Bank and thus derail peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. The terrorist hoped that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas would be forced to resign as a result of the peace talks failing.I believe they were supposed to take the bodies, but not stage a kidnapping in the ordinary sense. Otherwise, they would have shot out the car's tires and tried to take the hostages alive.
The Palestinian sources cited in the report claimed that the attacks were carried out on the orders of Hamas leadership in Gaza and Damascus.
The plan to steal the bodies was prevented by a passing car which forced the terrorists to flee the scene.
It's time to put all the roadblocks back in place in Judea and Samaria. Unfortunately, for as long as these 'peace talks' continue, this is only going to get worse.
