Two teenage Palestinians from a West Bank village have been arrested in the murders of five members of the Fogel family in a West Bank Jewish settlement.
The Israeli military announced Sunday that Israeli security services — including the Israel Defense Forces, the Shin Bet security service and police — were involved in the arrest of the teens from the nearby village of Awarta in connection with the brutal March 11 murders in Itamar on a Sabbath eve.
Amjad Awad, 19, who worked as a laborer in Israel, and Hakim Awad 18, a high school student, reportedly both admitted to committing the murders. They also staged a reconstruction of the crime, the French news agency AFP reported, citing a Shin Bet briefing document.
Amjad Awad, who is not related to Hakim, reportedly said that he went to the Itamar settlement to “die a martyr’s death.”
The suspects have been identified as members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, as are several members of their families, some of whom were arrested as accomplices, though Israeli security services suspect the alleged murderers did not act on behalf of the terrorist organization.
Dozens of residents of Awarta had been detained by Israeli security services in recent weeks in an effort to identify the Fogels’ murderers.
“The murders of five family members, including a 3-month-old baby, constitute a crossing of all red lines,” said IDF spokeswoman Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich. “The IDF has invested in numerous operational and intelligence efforts, and has worked closely with other security forces in order to find those responsible for this vicious murder.”
Udi Fogel, 36, and Ruth Fogel, 35, and their children Yoav, 11; Elad, 4; and Hadas, 3 months, were stabbed to death in their beds. Two sons — Roi, 8, and Yishai, 2 — were sleeping in a side bedroom and were spared. A daughter, Tamar, 12, returned home at midnight from a youth group program to discover the massacre.
The family had been evacuated from the Gaza Strip and lived in Ariel before building a home in the northern West Bank community, near the Palestinian city of Nablus.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday in public remarks that he had been updated in recent weeks and days on the progress of the investigation.
“For the family, this is not a complete answer, but without it they could not be given even a partial answer,” he said, adding that “We will reach murderers anywhere.”
i dont think you can take it off, and i advise you to stop posting MORe comments that will get everyone riled up
ok i am sorry you are right
i wish i didn’t write that but is there any possible way to get it off
Moshiach now let’s be 1 united all of us together amen
u r so immature. just accept that you said something stupid and people are reacting to it!!! gosh! and btw, I AGREE WITH #40
u guys r sooooooooooo pathetic its hillarious!!!! GROW UP! so (s)he said something stupid… next!! move on!! i swear i feel like im reading a book titled- “conversations of a 3rd grade calssroom”!!!! get a life!
okay i forgive #26. I dont think it was nice of anyone to say such rude remarks.
Those “teens” should rot in gehinom forever and ever! They belong with pharaoh, haman and hitler Y”S!
Do you all honestly believe that this is helping the situation. Our brothers and sisters are suffering over such a horrible tragedy. I cant even begin to imagine what they are going through. Do you seriously feel this is what the Fogels want? Instead of uniting as a nation and Davening for Moshiach to come and end the suffering in this world you are fighting over stupidity. Number 2 made a mistake obviously he/she didnt mean what they said so just get over it and forgive them. And number 2 if you want to help the fogels forgive number 26… Read more »
i said, I APOLOGIZE and no more! Everyone who said things that i am dumb etc… (comments #35, 10, 13, 15, 27, 24, 21) Just so you remember, people have feelings. BTW, Comment #26 is not mine. Someone wrote,”Its number two” and made a nast remark. I find it DISGUSTINGLY rude to say that and if i ever find out who u are, i will never forgive you, even by yom kippur.
Are you English? That would explain a lot.
How can you follow the media and call them teens? They are adults and old enough to know better and be punished. When the bomb in Jerusalem injured so many teens and school aged children the media reported civilians being injured not teens.
why are you fighting you should be davening no so that moshiach will com already
They are a bunch of stincking bloody idiots and they should alll rot and die in hell and there should be no more of them…stincking insane creatures.
let the murderers burn in hell!!!!
we need to stop these discusting, repulsive, creatures before they do something worse C”V. Why cant they just stop?!?!?! oh i remember. they think they go to heaven if they kill themselves along with JEWS. Pathetic, right?
Well, i really feel for the survivors. hashem should bless them in everything and we will all daven for them.
mashiach nowwww
We have to stop this murders
those guys have to be seriously psycho/mentally retarded not to have an guilt or regret after stabbing anyone, but especially little kids, and a 3-month-old baby. they are so evil its disgusting.
also, a few weeks ago there was an interview with tamar fogel they should have more!!!
I know that you no longer “admire” them, but in a different article these animals also said that if they knew there were 2 kids still alive in a different room then they would have murdered them also. They also said they would do it again if they get the chance. This is evil in its purest, lowest form. Just food for thought. Next time, before you make a provocative comment like that, make sure to read all the facts not just from one article like this one….
I am firmly apologize for being a blithering idiot.
Thank You
number 2, say what1?!?!?!?!?
YOU ADMIRE THEIR COURAGE?
they r a descendant of haman!
Of course i do noooooooooooot whatsoever admire them, i guess i wrote it out wrong. Also, from the way i read the arcticle, i thought that they handed themselves over and did teshuva, i didnt know that they were caught so i do not “admire” them anymore.
Im really sorry if anyone took my words wrong. I feel horribly bad for the Fogels and i didnt know the story.
I DO NOT ADMIRE THEM.
does anyone know wat happend to the kids
i’d feel pretty dumb if i were you
they have no guilt feeling!!
they said themselves that they have no regret what so ever of their actions. they said that they would have killed the other 2 boys if they knew they were in the other room!!!!!
number 2: they didnt turn themselvs in…. they were arrested and then they admitted it when interogated!! “big courage”
how can another jew say he admires them?????
for what ever reason!!!
they turned themselves in to become heros in the palestinians eyes and hoping that they will be killed and be considered martyrs.
with these guys, every move is more evil than the next, just like you watch a snake so too…
i don’t agree, they were busted, either they would go threw all the annoying investigation and be busted threw Israeli professionals and then have to admit, or save themselves all the pain and anguish and admit. which one would you choose?
you people r made of trash. no offence, the only reason ur still in the world is so u can suffer until the day of your hanging.
they dont deserve to live!!! but keep this for hashem, he knows how to deal with them……….in the most horrible way!!!!! to the kids, we feel for u and we will allways be with u and daven for u!!! hashem should bless u and help u with everything u do!!!! mashiach now!!!!!!!
If you have something smart to post, post it.
Thanx
starve them with giving them a crumb every day until they are about to die then just punch them 10 times and they should be dead by then
HOW DARE YOU IN ANY WAY COMPLIMENT THESE DISGUSTING ANIMALS?!?!?! dont put the word “admire” next to these animals!!!!!! they were probably full of guilt or were going thru psychological pain!!!! they didnt do it for good reasons!!! im sure of it!!! someone who did something so bad would never ever say that they did it for good intentions. there is not good in their body!!!
(to # 2,ur admiration is grossly misplaced. they are very proud of their deed, they dont need courage to report what they did, they get a lot of praise an honor for their actions)
this story is so painful, the rebbe said our tznius affects the safety of the yidden in eretz yisrael, its not a choice anymore, we all must improve, our neglect in this area is allowing the murders of our brothers and sisters in EY!
Whoever wrote #2 is right, and does anyone know whats going on with the survivors?!!!!!
Another point: Although this is a terribly sad story, why is it the only one being publicized? Don’t get me wrong, the story should be known to the public but arn’t the fogels just as important as the many other people facing terrible hardships in Israel?! I don’t see articles every day in Collive,com about poor people who’s financial supporters (ex: Parants) just died!!!!!!!! they also need our help!!!!!!
It takes guts to turn themselves in?!?!? this is what they are intocturinated with-to give themselves up to kill us C”V!!
we should never have to know again from such horrors!
try to be logical. Little kids, can not decide what to do with criminals. If they could, why dont they join the police force? Nothing wrong, right? What if the kids want the murderurs to rot in jail for 35 years and then be a slave to them?
Answer me. IS THAT JUSTICE?!?!?!? WOULD U WANT A JEW TREATED LIKE THAT?!?!?!?(C”V a jew would never do that….)
the kids should be able to decide what shudbe done with these monsters
THEY DESERVE IT, THE EVIL DEVLIS!!! MOSHIACH NOW!!
by all possible networks global wide, like some Saddam Hussein Yevach Shmo!!!
A public hanging is in order. Let’s get this over with fast and bloody.
I do not think they were “evacuated from Gaza”. More like evicted from Gaza. Let us have this wonderful family back with us already!
never forget the Fogels even though I never know them, they are fellow Yidden and I am/was horrified at their story.
To the kids remaining: Keep going, you have an amazing family and pass down the Fogel name.
I have two points to make
1) They are horrible rashaim, who did DISGUSTING things
2) I admire their courage to admit something horrible like that.
Obviously, I am not their secret admirer, and i am happy that they will IMY”H rot in prison, but I must say, it takes a lot og guts to hand yourself over.
they should get what they deserve!
such rashoim!