Five family members were found murdered in their residence in the West Bank Itamar settlement Friday overnight, after a suspected terrorist broke and entered the house and stabbed the five to death. Two children managed to escape and survived the attack, Army Radio reported.
A Magen David Adom team that arrived at the scene at 1:00 a.m. announced a couple, their 11-year old child, 3-year-old toddler, and a one-month baby girl dead from stabbing wounds.
Police have set out in search of the suspect in the Itamar settlement, which is near Nablus, as well as in the surrounding villages of Awarta, Beit Pouriq, and Beir Mouksaifa. Authorities requested that Itamar residents stay indoors.
Initial reports said that an armed terrorist entered the settlement and stabbed to death the couple and their children.
According to the settler YESHA council, about 100 families live in Itamar.
There was a similar attack on the settlement during a Palestinian uprising in 2002, when a gunman broke into a house and opened fire, killing four members of one family and a neighbor.
A Magen David Adom team that arrived at the scene at 1:00 a.m. announced a couple, their 11-year old child, 3-year-old toddler, and a one-month baby girl dead from stabbing wounds.
Police have set out in search of the suspect in the Itamar settlement, which is near Nablus, as well as in the surrounding villages of Awarta, Beit Pouriq, and Beir Mouksaifa. Authorities requested that Itamar residents stay indoors.
Initial reports said that an armed terrorist entered the settlement and stabbed to death the couple and their children.
According to the settler YESHA council, about 100 families live in Itamar.
There was a similar attack on the settlement during a Palestinian uprising in 2002, when a gunman broke into a house and opened fire, killing four members of one family and a neighbor.
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