Security forces operating in the Hebron district on Tuesday morning 17 Kislev remain on high alert after two PA (Palestinian Authority) families reported their sons have disappeared since Friday. One of the missing men is a nephew of one of the terrorists that abducted and murdered the three kedoshim, Gilad Saar, Naftali Frenkel and Eyal Yifrach HY”D.

IDF troops in that area moved to heightened alert on Monday night, acting on a terror alert that two missing PA residents were in the area and planning a terror attack.

12:06 IL: B’chasdei Hashem, two terrorists armed with knives were apprehended earlier infiltrating into Yishuv Tekoa in the eastern Gush Etzion district. Authorities explain these are the two who have been reported missing from their Hebron area homes since Friday, leading to the terror alert in that area.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)