"still no evidence about this particular abduction"
Whoever did it, it's an act of barbarism and, if the Palestinians are involved, totally counter-productive.
The Israelis will, no doubt, use it to inflict further suffering and indignities on the Palestinians, and to extend its programme of expansionism.
There have been 1,658 children's deaths in the area over the last dozen years - 129 of them Israeli, 1,529 Palestinian - there were 300 Palestinian children killed in 2009 alone - the overwhelming majority of them being of of those simple going about their everyday lives.
The killing of civilian citizens, particularly is inexcusable, though there are those who have chosen to highlight the ones that can be used as emotional capital to push an agenda.
Jim Carroll