Israeli forces find the bodies of three missing teenagers, including an American national, in the occupied West Bank Monday.

This comes after a nearly three-week-long search and a sweep targeted at the Islamist Hamas group that Israel says abducted them.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu summoned his security cabinet for a special session that could decide on stronger military moves against Hamas, which has neither confirmed nor denied the Israeli allegations.

The kidnapping of the three Jewish seminary students near a settlement in the West Bank appalled Israelis who rallied behind the teens' families.

(SOUNDBITE) (English) ISRAELI CITIZEN, BAY ANA, SAYING:

"I don't know what to say. Really, it's painful. For everyone, not only for Israelis. This is really really, how can I tell you. I don't know, it's painful for everybody who feels humanity."

The bodies were found in a field near Hebron, a militant stronghold and the hometown of two Hamas members