Posted on 04/17/2011 7:44:02 AM PDT by AnyStreetFL
The Israeli army on Sunday confirmed the recent arrest of two young Palestinian Arabs for the March 11 slaughter of the Fogel family in the northern Samaria Jewish community of Itamar.
An army spokesman told Israel Radio that 18-year-old Hakem Awwad and 19-year-old Amjad Awwad confessed to the murders of Udi and Ruth Fogel and three of their young children, and that they showed absolutely no remorse for their crime.
Reenacting the murder, the young suspects told security officials that they infiltrated Itamar at around 9 PM armed with knives. They proceeded to enter a home that was empty and stole an M-16 rifle that they found there.
The killers then broke into the Fogel home, found the bedrooms of 11-year-old Yoav Fogel and 4-year-old Elad Fogel and stabbed them to death. They then entered the parents' bedroom, where they struggled with and overcome Udi and Ruth Fogel.
After exiting the house, Amjad told officials that he could not resist the urge to go back in and kill 3-month-old Hadas Fogel, who was left crying amidst her parents' blood.
Amjad also said that had he known there were two other children sleeping in the house, he would have killed them, too.
Following the attack, the youths returned to their nearby village and informed various family members of their villainous deed. An uncle helped hide the knives, burn the bloody clothes and get rid of the M-16 rifle they had stolen. Other family members helped cover up the murder in other ways.
Security officials believe the Awwad boys acted on their own volition, and were not following the orders of an established terrorist organization, though they were widely praised by such organizations.
Israel has been facing an increasing phenomenon of young Arabs engaging not only in stone throwing, but cold-blooded murder. Security officials and Israeli lawmakers have attributed the trend to poor parenting, to put it lightly, and have noted that Palestinian parents are more often than not ready to help their children cover up such crimes, rather than discipline them.
It is also important to note that Palestinian society views the killers of Israeli Jews, and especially Israeli "settlers," as national heroes, increasing the motivation to engage in such violence.
That might be a little fast, but it's way slower than one of those tree/brush shredders.
It would do.
Destroy the homes of the relatives that provided aide to these butchers, and hang the killers in plain sight of the village.
Death penalty after making them blow up their houses and shooting each an every member of their respective families...
Oh, haven’t you heard?
Terry Jones is just a publicity whore that puts innocents bystanders and our brave service personel in danger.
God help the POS that tries to sell that shiite in my physical presence!
They should also lob a few mustard gas and nerve gas arty rounds into the village that aided and abbetted these two souless animals.
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I disagree. They should not be ground up.
There isn’t a legal system in existance designed to deal with this kind of evil. It’s too bad the IDF announced they captured them. Now they have to follow their own legal code, which is wholly inadequate.
I’m for the hogs eating them. Then mailing the excrement back to the families.
OK... I’ll buy that. The only question is whether Hamas directly put them up to it, or only indirectly.
Just slow it down a bit...otherwise it’s perfect
How disappointing. I thought we’d accounted for more....Perhaps if we upped IDF involvement by 10 to 12 percent, we’d do somewhat better.
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