Israel has identified two Hamas operatives as suspects in the alleged kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers. The teens disappeared in the West Bank earlier this month. Israel has accused Hamas of abducting them, and has imposed a wide-ranging crackdown, arresting more than 370 Palestinians and killing six. In New York, peace activists, including Pam Sporn, rallied to denounce Israel’s actions.

Pam Sporn, Jewish Voice for Peace: “We called this emergency demonstration against the extreme violence that the Israeli government is raining down upon Palestinians throughout the Occupied Territories on the pretext that three Israeli teenagers have been kidnapped. There’s been no concrete evidence that those teenagers have been kidnapped. But even if they have been, there is no reason for the collective punishment of millions of Palestinians. And certainly the kind of violence that is happening right now throughout the West Bank and Gaza will not bring those boys home to safety, wherever they might be.”