By Steve Hopkins for MailOnline Two Palestinians suspected over the abduction and murders of three Israeli teenagers have been killed by Israeli special forces who stormed a West Bank hideout. The deaths of the two well-known Hamas militants, Amer Abu Aisheh and Marwan Qawasmeh, ended one of the largest manhunts conducted by the Israeli security forces. Eyal Yifrah, 19, Gilad Shaar, 16, and Naftali Fraenkel, a 16-year-old with dual Israeli-American citizenship, were abducted on June 12 while hitch-hiking home in the West Bank and killed soon afterwards. Palestinians inspect the scene after Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinians, Amer Abu Aisheh and Marwan Qawasmeh, in the West Bank city of Hebron; the men were responsible for murdering three teenagers
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Deaths ended one of the largest manhunts conducted by Israeli forces
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A special unit stalked the suspects hideout in an area of Hebron for a week
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Three members of one of the killed men's family were also arrested
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