'Daughter screamed in horror, something terrible happened'
By JPOST.COM STAFF
03/13/2011 09:55
Neighbor of Fogel family gives eyewitness account to Army Radio after entering family's home in Itamar, says "We did not think it was terrorist attack."
Jacob Cohen, a neighbor of the Fogel family in the Itamar settlement, was the first person to come to the family's home after the stabbing, Cohen told Army Radio Sunday morning.
Twelve-year-old Tamar Fogel, who is friends with Cohen's daughter, spent the evening at the Cohen house at the time of the murder.
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Fogel family stabbed to death in Itamar
At least one terrorist infiltrated the West Bank settlement of Itamar, southeast of Nablus, late Friday night (11 March) and stabbed to death Udi (36) and Ruth (35) Fogel, and their children Yoav, 11, Elad, 4, and 3-month-old Hadas.
The killings occurred shortly after 10 p.m., when one or two attackers jumped the fence that surrounds Itamar and broke into the home of Ruth and Udi Fogel. The attackers went from room to room, stabbing the parents, a 3-month-old girl, Hadas, and two boys, Elad, 4, and Yoav, 11. Two other children - aged two and eight - were in a side room but were not attacked.
The family's oldest child, 12- year-old Tamar, was out of the house at the time and alerted neighbors when no one opened the door for her.
The IDF immediately launched searches in nearby Arab villages as Palestinians reported that a faction of Fatah’s al-Aksa Martyrs Brigade had claimed responsibility. Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman instructed the Israeli delegation to the United Nations to file a harsh complaint to the UN secretary-general and the president of the Security Council following the terror attack. "Israel is expecting to hear a strong condemnation from all democratic states, which in the name of human rights hurry to denounce every movement of a caravan in Judea and Samaria, but as of last night have yet to condemn the cruel murder of an entire family, including a one-month-old baby," he stated. He added that the fact that the Palestinian Authority has yet to condemn the attack "says more than anything about the true nature of someone who is supposed to be a partner to negotations."
President Peres: "This is one of the most difficult and despicable events that we have seen. It indicates a loss of humanity. There is no religion in the world or any faith that allows these kinds of horrible acts."
PM Netanyahu: I expect the international community to sharply and unequivocally condemn this murder, the murder of children. I have noticed that several countries that always hasten to the UN Security Council in order to condemn Israel, the state of the Jews, for planning a house in some locality, or for laying some tiles somewhere, have been dilatory in sharply condemning the murder of Jewish infants. I expect them to issue such condemnations immediately, without balances, without understandings, without justifications. There is no justification and there can be neither excuse nor forgiveness for the murder of children.
I expect a similar condemnation, and I demand a similar condemnation, from the Palestinian Authority. I am disappointed by the weak and mumbled statements. This is not how one condemns terrorism. This is not how one fights terrorism. See how Israeli prime ministers, myself among them, have reacted in similar situations, but there has never been anything like this, in which terrorists entered a home and cut children's throats.
This requires sharp and unequivocal condemnation. This requires something else. This requires a halt to the incitement. I demand that the Palestinian Authority stop the incitement that is conducted on a daily basis in their schools, mosques and the media under their control. The time has come to stop this double-talk in which the Palestinian Authority outwardly talks peace, and allows - and sometimes leads - incitement at home. The time has come to stop the incitement and begin educating their people for peace.
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13 March 2011
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From:
<imra@netvision.net.il>
Date: 2011/3/13
Subject: Itamar terrorism: photos of murdered children
To:
imra@imra.org.il
Itamar terrorism: photos of murdered children
Sunday, March 13, 2011 12:52 AM
Dear colleagues,
These photos were released by the family. They have given full permission
for their use and they to ask you to report on the horrific reality of
murdering children and babies in their sleep, simply because they are
Jewish.
https://picasaweb.google.com/picsyesha/Itamar
The photos are high resolution and can be reproduced in your website and
newspaper.
For more information, pls contact Roni Arazi, spokesman of the Yesha
Council, Israel; 972-54-566-5999.
From reports:
On Friday night at 10:30 pm the terrorists entered the house through the
living room picture window, did not notice the 6-year-old boy sleeping on
the couch and continued on to the bedroom where they slashed the throats of
the father and newborn baby who were sleeping there. The mother came out of
the bathroom and was stabbed on its threshold. The evidence shows that she
tried to fight the terrorists. They then slashed the throat of the 11-year
old-son who was reading in bed. They did not notice the 2-year old asleep in
his bed, but murdered the 3-year old with two stabs to his heart. After
that, they locked the door, exited through the window and escaped. Two hours
after the infiltration, there was another warning signal from the same spot
on the fence, as the terrorists left the way they had come. Once again, the
patrol did not identify the source of the signal as infiltration.
The 12-year-old daughter returned home at 00:30 and found the door locked.
She asked a neighbor to help her. He brought a weapon with him once he
noticed tracks and mud near the house. The two woke up the 6-year old
sleeping in the living room by calling through the window and when he opened
the door, the Rabbi returned to his home. When she entered the bedrooms, the
young daughter saw the horrific bloodsoaked scene and ran out of the house
screaming. The neighbor ran back and fired several shots in the air to alert
security personnel. Within a short time, large police and IDF forces
arrived and began intensive searches to see if the terrorists were still in
the community. At 03:30 a.m., military trackers discovered footprints
leading to the Arab village of Avrata.
With hopes for better days,
Ruthie Lieberman
Jaffe Strategies, Ltd.
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Ruth J. Lieberman
CEO, Jaffe Strategies
Israel
972-54-922-9960
ruth@jaffestrategies.com
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