Monday, April 18, 2011

Two Palestinians arrested for the murder of an Israeli family in the West Bank

Since Friday, March 11, Ehud Fogel (36), his wife Ruth (35) and his sons Yoav (11), Elad (4) and Hadas (three months) were killed at his home in the Itamar settlement in the northern West Bank, Israeli security agencies conducted an extensive investigation that included searches, arrests and interrogations of nearly 300 Palestinians.

On Sunday, Israel has lifted part of a gag to report that last week arrested those responsible for the stabbing of the entire family in an attack that shocked the nation and provoked condemnation from Palestinian leaders. This is Amjad Ahmed Awad (19) and Mazen Hakim Awad (18), the Palestinian village of Awarta, adjacent to the settlement of Itamar.

According to the Israeli secret service (Shabak), the two Palestinians showed no remorse for the attack, revealing that Hadas also decided to kill, three months, "it cried," and feared being discovered. "We wanted to kill Jews. We went to Itamar action to martyrdom," confessed Amjad Ahmed Awad.

According to his testimony, the other two brothers of the Fogel family of 8 and 2 years, survived because they saw them. At the moment, are under arrest six Palestinians, including four members of a family suspected of having helped hide the weapons. The two young people are identified with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-member of the PLO, Israel believed that they acted on their own initiative.

"This is not no act of family revenge, but an attack like those he had during the Intifada," says an officer for the northern West Bank. "The murderers of the five members of the Fogel family, including a baby of three months is a clear war crime. The Army along with other security agencies have done everything possible to apprehend those responsible for this heinous murder," declaring military spokesman Lt.

Col. Avital Leibovich. In the village of Awarta, had complained in recent weeks to live a "hell" due to continuous raids of the army and half the records in about 1500 homes. Moreover, the majority of its inhabitants had unreservedly condemned the killing. Kais Awad, the head of the board of Awarta, has rejected the findings of the investigation: "They can say and do what they want.

Maybe the confessions of young people have been forced into the interrogation." "The fact that detained those responsible shows that Israel is not willing to overlook the fact that murderers massacre its citizens," said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "Some had said that the Palestinians are not capable of such atrocity.

The security forces have done a great job but if I'm honest I would have liked more than these animals would not still be alive, has clarified the settler leader of the Council, Danny Dayan, in his first reaction.

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