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A dramatic video showing the kidnapping
Seven-year-old Karim Jumhour of Qalansawe emerged on Tuesday, with footage suddenly showing him snapped up and carried away in a car.
Karim was playing with a young parent outside his house when a vehicle stopped and the driver asked a few questions to the boys before a masked man got out of the vehicle and did not force the boy into the car before he runs away. Karim's friend then ran into the house shouting "a kidnapping!"
The Jumhour family says that if the other boy had not been present, they would not have known that Karim had been kidnapped. The authorities suspect that the boy was taken to the West Bank.
Abduction of Karim Jumhour
The elders of the city are trying to locate the boy. "God willing, the boy will be safely and completely returned to his family today," said a local hope.
The boy's father, Jaber, told Ynet, "They (the kidnappers) have asked for four million shekels in exchange for the boy, and I do not want to pay." I wait for the boy to come back healthy and EXCEPT.
Moment of Abduction
Police, who lifted censorship of the incident Wednesday afternoon, work tirelessly to locate Karim while The family struggles to cope with the tragedy they say that they have all been deprived of sleep since the incident.
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Residents with signs saying "We are Karim"
Dozens of Qalansawe residents staged a protest in front of the Kadima Police Station in solidarity with the family. They held placards saying, "We are all Karim." Residents are also at Jumhour's house to try to comfort the family.
Qalansawe Mayor Abdulbast Salameh was also present. "It's a shocking incident, we can not sit idly by," said the mayor. "At this point, we do not have details on the state of the child, we expect good news, the most important is the return of the child."
Issam Tayeh, a resident of Qalansawe, said, "This incident has gone through all the red lines, this boy is like a son to us all, grief has entered every home in Qalansawe, we feel abandoned. "
"We pray that the boy will return to his family and urge the kidnappers to return him as soon as possible," he added.
