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was an attack on a [[Jewish]] family in the [[Israeli settlement]] of [[Itamar]] in the [[West Bank]], on Friday night, 11 March 2011, in which five members of the family were murdered in their beds |
was an attack on a [[Jewish]] family in the [[Israeli settlement]] of [[Itamar]] in the [[West Bank]], on Friday night, 11 March 2011, in which five members of the family were murdered in their beds, by two Palestinians from the village of Awarta. They are accused of stabbing the parents to death and slitting the children's throats. Later they confessed of shooting the parents too. The victims are the father Ehud (Udi) Fogel, the mother Ruth Fogel, and three of their six children, the youngest a three-month-old infant; two other children, who were sleeping in an adjacent room, were not harmed.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/8402973/A-family-slaughtered-in-Israel-doesnt-the-BBC-care.html |title=A family slaughtered in Israel – doesn't the BBC care? - Telegraph |publisher=telegraph.co.uk |accessdate=2011-04-16 }}</ref> The killings were discovered by the eldest daughter when she arrived home.<ref name="Guardian1">{{cite news|title=Five members of Jewish family killed in suspected Palestinian militant attack | last=Sherwood|first=Harriet | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/12/west-bank-jewish-family-killed | work=|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=12 March 2011|accessdate=14 March 2011}}</ref> The settlement of Itamar had been the target of several murderous attacks before these killings.<ref>{{cite news|title=Itamar settlement has been a prime target for terror| last=Cohen|first=Gili | url=http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/itamar-settlement-has-been-a-prime-target-for-terror-1.348819| work=|newspaper=[[Haaretz]]|date=13 March 2011|accessdate=14 March 2011}}</ref> |
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An initial probe suggested two perpetrators entered Itamar shortly after 9 p.m., jumping over the settlement's security fence, and remained in the settlement for three hours without being noticed.<ref name="Haaretz1">{{cite news|url=http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/series-of-security-failures-led-up-to-west-bank-settlement-attack-probe-shows-1.348807| title=Series of security failures led up to West Bank settlement attack, probe shows |date=13 March 2011|first=Anshel |last=Pfeffer |newspaper=Haaretz|accessdate=14 March 2011}}</ref> |
An initial probe suggested that two perpetrators entered Itamar shortly after 9 p.m., jumping over the settlement's security fence, and remained in the settlement for three hours without being noticed.<ref name="Haaretz1">{{cite news|url=http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/series-of-security-failures-led-up-to-west-bank-settlement-attack-probe-shows-1.348807| title=Series of security failures led up to West Bank settlement attack, probe shows |date=13 March 2011|first=Anshel |last=Pfeffer |newspaper=Haaretz|accessdate=14 March 2011}}</ref> |
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Following a massive manhunt by the [[Israel Defense Forces]], [[Israel Police]], [[Israel Border Police]], and [[Shin Bet]] |
Following a massive manhunt by the [[Israel Defense Forces]], [[Israel Police]], [[Israel Border Police]], and [[Shin Bet]], the perpetrators suspected of carrying out the attack, two young Palestinian men from the village of [[Awarta]], were arrested.<ref name="solved"/> The perpetrators, Hakim Mazen Awad, 18, and Amjad Mahmad Awad, 19, were affiliated with the [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]], and confessed to the slayings and reenacted them. Israeli authorities said the attackers received "significant assistance from security forces and friends", planned the attack well ahead of time, and showed no remorse for their actions.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=216963 |title=IDF: 2 Palestinians arrested in Fogel family massacre |last=Lappin |first=Yaakov |work=The Jerusalem Post |date=17 April 2011 |accessdate=20 April 2011}}</ref> |
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The attack was harshly condemned by the [[United Nations]], the [[Quartet on the Middle East]], [[France]], [[Germany]], the [[United Kingdom]], the [[United States]], and many other governments and a number of [[non-governmental organization]]s. The [[Palestinian Authority]] condemned the attack, while residents of [[Rafah]] in the [[Hamas]]-controlled [[Gaza Strip]] celebrated it.<Ref name=ynetgaza/> In an opinion poll, 32% of Palestinians supported the attack and 63% opposed it.<ref name=truman/> |
The attack was harshly condemned by the [[United Nations]], the [[Quartet on the Middle East]], [[France]], [[Germany]], the [[United Kingdom]], the [[United States]], and many other governments and a number of [[non-governmental organization]]s. The [[Palestinian Authority]] condemned the attack, while residents of [[Rafah]] in the [[Hamas]]-controlled [[Gaza Strip]] celebrated it.<Ref name=ynetgaza/> In an opinion poll, 32% of Palestinians supported the attack and 63% opposed it.<ref name=truman/> |
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A [[gag order]] was imposed on the investigation.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=212177|title= PA-linked sites: 'Foreign worker behind Itamar killings'| newspaper=Jerusalem Post|date= 15 March 2011}}</ref> |
A [[gag order]] was imposed on the investigation.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=212177|title= PA-linked sites: 'Foreign worker behind Itamar killings'| newspaper=Jerusalem Post|date= 15 March 2011}}</ref> |
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On April 17, 2011, two |
On April 17, 2011, two suspects who had been arrested during the Israeli investigation were identified as the killers. The suspects, Amjad Mahmad Awad, 19, and Hakim Mazen Awad, 18, were both affiliated with the [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]]. Both suspects confessed to the killings and offered a detailed description that Shin Bet officers called one of the most "shocking, cold, remorseless, and detailed" descriptions they had ever come across. Both teens also participated in a reenactment that a Shin Bet officer described as "chilling". During their interrogations, neither expressed remorse, and Amjad said that he had gone to Itamar to die as a [[Shahid|martyr]]. Six others, including four relatives of Hakim, were arrested for providing assistance.<ref name="teens"/> |
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Hakim Mazen Awad was a high school student whose father, Mazen (who was arrested for assisting them), was active in the PFLP. Mazen had previously served a prison sentence for murdering his cousin and cremating the body. His uncle Jibril was also a PFLP militant who had participated in a 2002 attack against Itamar which left four civilians and the settlement's security officer dead, and who was killed in a 2003 clash with IDF troops. Amjad Mahmad Awad was a university student also affiliated with the PFLP. The families of the two suspects denied the two committed the massacre. Hakim Awad's mother, Nawef, claimed that her son was at home the night of the murder and never left the house, claiming that "five months ago Hakim underwent a surgery in his stomach and I'm sure he was tortured and forced into confessing." Amjad's family also claimed that he was in the village at the time of the event. One relative said that Hakim and Amjad did not know each other, as "one went to university, the other is in high school". He also claimed that if they had been guilty, they would have been captured within days, as "the whole world knows about Israel's advanced investigation abilities and its use of sophisticated means".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4058186,00.html |title=Itamar attack: 'My son was tortured into confessing' |last=Levy |first=Elior |date=17 April 2011 |accessdate=20 April 2011 |work=Ynetnews}}</ref> Shin Bet, however, claimed that in spite of the time passed between the murders and arrests, it was a major achievement.<ref name="solved"/> |
Hakim Mazen Awad was a high school student whose father, Mazen (who was arrested for assisting them), was active in the PFLP. Mazen had previously served a prison sentence for murdering his cousin and cremating the body. His uncle Jibril was also a PFLP militant who had participated in a 2002 attack against Itamar which left four civilians and the settlement's security officer dead, and who was killed in a 2003 clash with IDF troops. Amjad Mahmad Awad was a university student also affiliated with the PFLP. The families of the two suspects denied the two committed the massacre. Hakim Awad's mother, Nawef, claimed that her son was at home the night of the murder and never left the house, claiming that "five months ago Hakim underwent a surgery in his stomach and I'm sure he was tortured and forced into confessing." Amjad's family also claimed that he was in the village at the time of the event. One relative said that Hakim and Amjad did not know each other, as "one went to university, the other is in high school". He also claimed that if they had been guilty, they would have been captured within days, as "the whole world knows about Israel's advanced investigation abilities and its use of sophisticated means".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4058186,00.html |title=Itamar attack: 'My son was tortured into confessing' |last=Levy |first=Elior |date=17 April 2011 |accessdate=20 April 2011 |work=Ynetnews}}</ref> Shin Bet, however, claimed that in spite of the time passed between the murders and arrests, it was a major achievement.<ref name="solved"/> |
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32°10′20.57″N 35°18′29.62″E / 32.1723806°N 35.3082278°E
March 2011 Itamar attack | |
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Location | Itamar, West Bank, (Area C) |
Date | March 11, 2011 Midnight (GMT+2) |
Attack type | Stabbing/Shooting attack |
Weapons | Knife M-16 rifle |
Deaths | 5 (3 children) |
The March 2011 Itamar attack, also known as Itamar killings and Itamar massacre,[2] was an attack on a Jewish family in the Israeli settlement of Itamar in the West Bank, on Friday night, 11 March 2011, in which five members of the family were murdered in their beds, by two Palestinians from the village of Awarta. They are accused of stabbing the parents to death and slitting the children's throats. Later they confessed of shooting the parents too. The victims are the father Ehud (Udi) Fogel, the mother Ruth Fogel, and three of their six children, the youngest a three-month-old infant; two other children, who were sleeping in an adjacent room, were not harmed.[3] The killings were discovered by the eldest daughter when she arrived home.[4] The settlement of Itamar had been the target of several murderous attacks before these killings.[5]
An initial probe suggested that two perpetrators entered Itamar shortly after 9 p.m., jumping over the settlement's security fence, and remained in the settlement for three hours without being noticed.[6]
Following a massive manhunt by the Israel Defense Forces, Israel Police, Israel Border Police, and Shin Bet, the perpetrators suspected of carrying out the attack, two young Palestinian men from the village of Awarta, were arrested.[7] The perpetrators, Hakim Mazen Awad, 18, and Amjad Mahmad Awad, 19, were affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and confessed to the slayings and reenacted them. Israeli authorities said the attackers received "significant assistance from security forces and friends", planned the attack well ahead of time, and showed no remorse for their actions.[8]
The attack was harshly condemned by the United Nations, the Quartet on the Middle East, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, and many other governments and a number of non-governmental organizations. The Palestinian Authority condemned the attack, while residents of Rafah in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip celebrated it.[9] In an opinion poll, 32% of Palestinians supported the attack and 63% opposed it.[10]
The attack
Two assailants took part in the attack.[7][11] According to Israeli investigators, the two suspected perpetrators, Amjad Mahmad Awad and Hakim Mazen Awad, had attempted to acquire weapons from a Popular Front militant in Awarta. After he refused, they decided to carry out the attack using knives. Just after 9 p.m. on Friday night, the two left Awarta carrying several knives, an umbrella, and wire-cutting shears. The two then cut through the settlement's security fence, which took about ten minutes, climbed the security barrier, and walked 400 meters into the settlement. An initial probe showed that the fence around Itamar functioned properly. At about the same time that they infiltrated, an alarm sounded in the settlement's security room, indicating the exact location where they entered. But neither the settlement's civilian security team nor the civilian security officer, who went to the site of the disturbance and found nothing out of order, informed soldiers patrolling the area of the fence, concluding that an animal had set off the alarm, although procedures prescribe that the IDF is to be informed of any alarm.[12]
The perpetrators first broke into a house of the Chai family who were on vacation, searching all the rooms.[13] They stole an M-16 assault rifle, ammunition, a helmet, and a kevlar vest. They waited an hour and entered the Fogels' house at around 10:30 p.m. Amjad and Hakim said that they noticed there were children inside, but were undeterred, and entered anyway. They killed the two young boys immediately after breaking in, but did not harm two other children asleep in the house at the time. In their confessions, the suspects said that they had not noticed them, and that they would not have hesitated to kill them if they had. The two next killed parents Udi and Ruth. According to the investigation, both had struggled with their attackers before being killed. Both were stabbed, and Ruth was also shot with the stolen M-16, but due to the weather at the time, the gunshots were not heard. According to the confessions of the suspects, they feared that the shots had been heard and fled outside, but noticed that they had not yet been discovered. Amjad then re-entered the Fogel home to steal an additional M-16 rifle. When the 3-month old baby began crying, Amjad stabbed her, fearing the cries would attract attention.[1][7] The murderers left the house at around 11 p.m. and left the settlement without being detected.[12][6]
According to Israeli investigators, Amjad and Mazen returned to Awarta on foot following the attack, and appealed to Hakim's uncle, PFLP militant Salah Awad, for assistance, and gave him a detailed description of the attack. Salah helped them conceal their stolen weapons and bloodstained clothes, and later transferred the stolen weapons to a contact in Ramallah for hiding.[7]
The bodies were discovered by the 12-year-old daughter of the family who arrived home around midnight after a youth outing.[14] After finding that the door was locked, she asked her neighbor, Rabbi Ya'akov Cohen, for help. He noticed tracks and mud near the house, and brought a weapon with him. The two then woke the sleeping 6-year old boy by calling through the window, and he opened the door, after which Cohen returned to his home. When the girl discovered the murders, she ran outside screaming, and the Rabbi ran back, firing several shots into the air to alert security personnel. Rabbi Cohen, who later entered the house with the girl, said that her two-year-old brother "was lying next to his bleeding parents, shaking them with his hands and trying to get them to wake up, while crying... The sight in the house was shocking."[15] ZAKA paramedics were called to the scene, and followed a trail of toys and blood to the bedroom, where they discovered the first three bodies: the mother, father and infant. In the next room they found the body of the 11-year-old sibling. Finally they reached the last bedroom, where the 3-year-old boy was severely injured and dying. The toddler died of his wounds despite the efforts of medical personnel.[14]
The bodies remained in the home throughout the remainder of the Jewish Sabbath in accordance with Jewish law. During this time, ZAKA volunteers covered and watched over the bodies. ZAKA volunteer and regional commander Gil Bismot said that "we did we what we were able to do within the framework of the Sabbath". Immediately after the end of the Sabbath, a large team of ZAKA volunteers was dispatched to the home. The volunteers cleared the scene, removed the bodies, ensured that all human remains were collected. Identification of the victims was carried out on-site by Dr. Yehuda Hiss, in the presence of ZAKA Rabbinical Council Rabbi Ya'akov Roget.[16]
Victims
The victims of the attack are Udi Fogel, age 36, the son of Gush Emunim activists from Neve Tzuf,[17] Ruth Fogel, age 35, the daughter of a Jerusalem rabbi,[18] and three of their six children, Yoav, age 11, Elad, age 4, and three months old Hadas.[19]
The Fogel family had recently settled in Itamar. They previously lived in the Gush Katif settlement of Netzarim in the Gaza Strip. After Gush Katif was evacuated in 2005, they moved to the settlement of Ariel, and in 2009 to Itamar, where Udi Fogel worked as teacher at the post-high school yeshiva.[19]
Three of the family's children, Tamar, age 12, Roi, age 6, and Yishai, age 2 have survived physically unharmed. They are being cared for by grandparents in the aftermath of the attack.[15] Twelve-year-old Tamar is quoted as having promised her relatives: "I will be strong and succeed in overcoming this. I understand the task that stands before me, and I will be a mother to my siblings."[19]
Funeral
The funeral of the five victims on Sunday, 13 March at Har HaMenuchot Cemetery in Givat Shaul, Jerusalem, was attended by some 20,000 people and broadcast on Israeli television. Speakers included former Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, quoted as saying: "We will not bend, we will not give up, we returned to the land of our fathers and it is our home, and the children shall return within their borders and nothing will prevent our faith in the righteousness of our path", Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, who, linking the murderers to Amalek, stated that "Itamar needs to become a major city in Israel as a response to this murder", and Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin, whose final remarks were: "Build more, live more, more footholds – that is our response to the murderers so that they know – they can't defeat us".[20]
Ruth Fogel's father was quoted as having said: "Our children are prepared to be sacrificed as an offering at the altar we have to continue to build to bring redemption. Udi and Ruthie wanted this redemption."[21]
Udi Fogel's brother Motti Fogel spoke out against the use that has been made of the murder of the family: "All the slogans about Torah and settlement, the Land of Israel and the people of Israel are attempts to forget the simple and pain-torn fact: you are dead. You are dead, and no slogan will bring you back. You are not a symbol or a national event. Your life was a purpose in and of itself, and it should be forbidden for your terrible death to turn your life into some sort of tool."[22]
Responsibility
Due to the characteristics of the killings, the Israel Defense Forces believed that the attack was not carried out by an organized terrorist infrastructure but was the work of one or two people, presumably Palestinian.[23] Israeli authorities initially suspected that the killings may have been in revenge for the killing of two Palestinian teenagers from Awarta, who were shot dead near Itamar in 2010.[14]
Several media, among them the Guardian and the Washington Post, first reported that the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah, the dominant political faction in the West Bank, claimed responsibility for the attack,[15] whereas the Jerusalem Post reported, that the "Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades of Imad Mughniyeh" had claimed responsibility, a group named after a Hezbollah chief of military operations and liaison with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards who was killed by a car bomb in Damascus in 2008. According to Al Hayat, officials of "Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades" denied association with the Imad Mughniyeh-group or the attack.[24]
The Jerusalem Post reported that a number of media outlets affiliated with the Palestinian Authority doubt Israeli claims that the killings were committed by Palestinians and report that a Thai worker who was employed in the settlement had been arrested on suspicion of the killings.
A gag order was imposed on the investigation.[25]
On April 17, 2011, two suspects who had been arrested during the Israeli investigation were identified as the killers. The suspects, Amjad Mahmad Awad, 19, and Hakim Mazen Awad, 18, were both affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Both suspects confessed to the killings and offered a detailed description that Shin Bet officers called one of the most "shocking, cold, remorseless, and detailed" descriptions they had ever come across. Both teens also participated in a reenactment that a Shin Bet officer described as "chilling". During their interrogations, neither expressed remorse, and Amjad said that he had gone to Itamar to die as a martyr. Six others, including four relatives of Hakim, were arrested for providing assistance.[1]
Hakim Mazen Awad was a high school student whose father, Mazen (who was arrested for assisting them), was active in the PFLP. Mazen had previously served a prison sentence for murdering his cousin and cremating the body. His uncle Jibril was also a PFLP militant who had participated in a 2002 attack against Itamar which left four civilians and the settlement's security officer dead, and who was killed in a 2003 clash with IDF troops. Amjad Mahmad Awad was a university student also affiliated with the PFLP. The families of the two suspects denied the two committed the massacre. Hakim Awad's mother, Nawef, claimed that her son was at home the night of the murder and never left the house, claiming that "five months ago Hakim underwent a surgery in his stomach and I'm sure he was tortured and forced into confessing." Amjad's family also claimed that he was in the village at the time of the event. One relative said that Hakim and Amjad did not know each other, as "one went to university, the other is in high school". He also claimed that if they had been guilty, they would have been captured within days, as "the whole world knows about Israel's advanced investigation abilities and its use of sophisticated means".[26] Shin Bet, however, claimed that in spite of the time passed between the murders and arrests, it was a major achievement.[7]
Local tensions
Due to an increase in security measures by the Palestinian National Authority, militant operations in the West Bank had been declining. Over the previous two years, Israel had removed a number of roadblocks and checkpoints, although a security fence remained in place around Itamar. The attack was the first killing of settlers since a drive-by shooting in August 2010 left four dead near Hebron.[4] Attacks on Jewish settlements in the West Bank have on previous occasions been defended by some Palestinians, who argue that the settlers are de facto combatants in the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.[14]
Itamar, with a population of 1,032 (2009), mostly ideologically motivated national-religious Jewish families considered among the most fervent Jewish settlers in the West Bank, has had numerous confrontations with local Palestinians. Tensions between Itamar and the nearby Palestinian village of Awarta have been rising before the attack. Palestinians had accused settlers in the locality of cutting down hundreds of olive trees,[4] burning cars and shooting at Palestinian residents. Ten Palestinians and one settler were injured in a confrontation in the week before the attack, when Israeli soldiers were accused of opening fire to quell the clash.[14]
Responses
Israeli authorities
In response to the Itamar attack, on March 13, the Israeli cabinet approved the construction of 500 housing units in the West Bank settlements and settlement blocs of Gush Etzion, Ma'ale Adumim, Ariel and Modi'in Illit, areas of the West Bank that Israel intends to keep under any permanent accord with the Palestinians.[27] The decision was taken in a late-night cabinet meeting, in which both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak took part, after several alternatives, such as starting a new settlement or widening the settlement of Itamar, were rejected. The decision brought harsh criticism from both the Palestinians and the United States.[28]
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, visiting relatives of the victims, told the mourners: "They shoot and we build".[27] And Tamar Fogel (the mourner) responded, "And then you evacuate...but in reality they are evacuating all the time. Not only that, but evacuation causes strife between brothers." [29]
The Israel Defense Forces, Israel Police, Israel Border Police, and Shin Bet launched a massive manhunt throughout the area for suspects, beginning with a search across the village of Itamar. The Israeli Air Force used UAVs for aerial surveillance of the area in an attempt to locate suspects. Israeli authorities declared the nearby West Bank city of Nablus a closed military zone. Israeli troops set up checkpoints on the roads leading to the city and prevented vehicles and pedestrians from leaving or entering, according to Palestinians.[30] Israeli soldiers carried out raids into the city, placing the residential areas under curfew and conducting house-to-house searches.[31] The previously-dismantled Huwwara Checkpoint was re-established.[12] The village of Awarta was also sealed off and declared a closed military zone after IDF scouts discovered the footprints of the suspected perpetrators leading to the village. IDF troops entered Burqa village in northern Nablus, searching houses and questioning residents. They did not make any arrests.[30] IDF soldiers and Israel Border Police gendarmes also entered the villages of Awarta, Sanur, and Zababdeh, arresting several dozen Palestinians.[23]
Israeli authorities placed Awarta under curfew and conducted mass arrests of Palestinians throughout the following days. According to Palestinian sources, all men from Awarta were questioned. Residents reported constant door-to-door searches, with some homes being searched up to three times. According to witness reports, Israeli armored vehicles patrolled the village's streets, and troops were deployed on the hilltops around the village. The city of Nablus remained under closure; but four days after the murders, a food delivery was permitted into the city.[32] On March 29, 2011, the IDF initiated a second wave of arrests in Awarta, detaining 60 Palestinians, including the Deputy Mayor of Awarta, and collecting DNA samples. About 20 were immediately released following DNA testing, and another 40 were interrogated.[33] A week later, AFP reported that the IDF arrested more than 100 women from the village, placing them in a camp where they were fingerprinted and DNA samples were taken, before most of them were released.[34]
On April 11, daily IDF raids continued in the village, and troops continued to maintain roadblocks at the entrance. According to allegations by Yaakov Manor a left wing activist and Awarta residents, soldiers humiliated residents and damaged property. Palestinian officials claimed that Israel had seized land around the village to expand nearby settlements. The Palestinian Authority condemned the raids and called on the international community to pressure Israel into halting them.[35]
On April 17, the suspected perpetrators of the attack were identified by Shin Bet as two Awarta residents that had been previously arrested and were already in custody. The perpetrators, Hakim Mazen Awad, 18, and Amjad Mahmad Awad, 19, confessed to the killings and offered a detailed account of the attack, as well as a reenactment. Hakim had been arrested on April 5, and Amjad on April 10. During the investigation, Hakim's father, two uncles, and brother also were arrested for hiding the murder weapons and suppressing additional evidence. Israeli security forces also arrested the PFLP militant who they had approached for weapons and the Ramallah resident who had hidden the two stolen assault rifles following the attack, both of which were recovered in his home.[36][7] Both were members of the PFLP. However, Shin Bet investigators did not identify the attack as being carried out under the auspices of the PFLP, but rather as an individual act.[1]
In the aftermath of the attack, large Israeli military and police forces were deployed near Nablus to prevent clashes between Jewish settlers and Palestinians.[37] The following day, the Israel Police increased its presence in settler areas to counter possible retaliatory attacks by settlers against Palestinians. Around 100 police officers deployed in or around the Jewish Quarter and nearby Arab neighborhoods of Hebron and the nearby town of Kiryat Arba, and police and IDF forces also deployed in major intersections throughout the West Bank.
Israeli civilians
According to Palestinian sources and the BBC, Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian property and residents in villages near Nablus, in parts of Hebron, and in areas around Bethlehem and Ramallah. The BBC characterized the attacks as acts of revenge for the Fogel murders.[38][39] Israeli settlers handed out leaflets threatening the lives of villagers in Beitillu, near Ramallah, and vandalized Palestinian property in Hebron.[40] Settlers blocked a junction in Gush Etzion, and threw stones at Palestinians. Several were arrested by IDF and police forces deployed on the scene. Israeli activists blocked an intersection near Psagot on Highway 60. Palestinians reported that settlers from Bat Ayin took part in the protest, and that Israeli Police had fired tear gas at Palestinians on the site. Palestinians also claimed that settlers entered the village of Huwwara and threw stones at residents. Settlers near Nablus and in the Kedumim area stoned and burned Palestinian vehicles, and reportedly blocked the Jit Junction.[41]
Small demonstrations against the attack broke out in Israel on 13 March. Dozens of demonstrators appeared in the Horev, Tzabar, Megiddo, and Azrieli Junctions, carrying signs proclaiming "we are settlers too" and "peace isn't signed with blood". Numerous drivers honked in solidarity. Several dozen right-wing activists also protested near Jerusalem, chanting "revenge" and "death to Arabs", and carrying signs reading "the government destroys communities – the Arabs murder Jews". Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg, President of the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in Yitzhar issued a statement calling for the demolition of houses in a village near Itamar every 30 minutes until the residents turn the perpetrators in, and to "kill the murderers immediately after they are turned in".[41] The following day, dozens of students from Bar Ilan University protested near Highway 4, chanting "enough to violence and incitement - talk to humans not murderers".[42]
On 14 March, settlers clashed with Palestinians near Nablus, which ended after Israeli troops dispersed the Palestinians with live fire. An Israeli settler and ten Palestinians were wounded during the clashes.[43] Three days later, two Palestinian workers employed in the settlement of Shilo were attacked by masked men armed with iron rods and pepper spray, as was an Israeli securtiy guard who attempted to protect them.[44]
On 16 March, some 200 settlers marched from Itamar into Awarta to protest the killings. Fourteen entered the village and threw stones at homes. IDF soldiers and Border Police gendarmes dispersed the rioters. A number of settlers also marched up a hill near Itamar to support the construction of a new settlement outpost there.[45]
On 16 March Haaretz reported that residents of Itamar were undertaking the construction of a new outpost, unofficially named "Aryeh."[46] "Aryeh" is Hebrew for lion, as well as an approximate acronym for the names Udi, Ruth, Yoav, Elad and Hadas, the five victims of the attack.
These Israeli building plans brought a response from the U.S. State Department. A spokesperson told the Jewish Week that the "United States is deeply concerned by continuing Israeli actions with respect to settlements in the West Bank" and that "[c]ontinued Israeli settlements are illegitimate and run counter to efforts to resume direct negotiations."[47]
An opinion poll conducted by the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace and the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research found, according to the groups, "In light of the attack in Itamar, 59% among Israelis oppose and 33% support the government policy to relax the security measures in the West Bank such as the removal of road blocks." The groups asked 601 adult Israelis interviewed by phone in Hebrew, Arabic, or Russian between March 21st and 28th, 2011.[10]
Palestinian
Palestinians threw stones at Israeli vehicles in the West Bank,[48] including buses returning from the funeral of the victims.[49] Some Palestinian residents of the village of Awarta, who had previously clashed with settlers from Itamar for a number of years, denounced the killings.[14]
Settlers saw fireworks and celebrations in nearby Palestinian communities on the day of the attack.[50] In the Gaza Strip, the killings sparked some celebrations in the city of Rafah, where Palestinian residents handed out candy and sweets on the streets. A resident described the celebrations as "a natural response to the harm settlers inflict on the Palestinian residents in the West Bank."[9] An Israeli reporter who interviewed Palestinians on the street about their opinion of the attacks said he was surprised at how strong and invariable their condemnation was.[citation needed] Similarly MEMRI, commenting on reactions to the murders in the Palestinian media, stated that while a Hamas website praised the murders, in the rest of the Palestinian media the murder of children ("even of settlers") was strongly condemned as unequivocally immoral and contrary to Palestinian values, and as doing nothing to help the Palestinian cause. One editorial, for example, stated: "Stabbing an infant to death is a crime against humanity. Whoever did this was insane, or charged with racist assumptions. This is not nationalist; there is no connection between the murder of the infant in the settlement of Itamar and the values of our people's struggle." Many questioned whether such a murderer could be Palestinian. The PLO condemned the murders and accused Israel of jumping to the conclusion that the perpetrator was Palestinian and of exploiting the tragedy for its own political gains.[51] A Haaretz article also reported that Palestinians in newspapers and on social networking sites condemned the attack while also criticizing settlers and the Israeli government's declaration of new settlement units in retaliation.[52]
An opinion poll conducted by the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace and the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research found that 63% of Palestinians surveyed opposed the attack while 32% supported. The groups interviewed 1,270 adults face-to-face in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip from March 17th to 19th 2011.[10]
American
A memorial service for the Fogel family was held at New York's Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun a week after the attack. It was attended by 1,000 local residents, with 2,000 more viewing a live broadcast over the internet. President of the New York Board of Rabbis Rabbi Yaakov Kermaier said of the victims that they "were treated as criminals for settling and building beautiful lives in the heartland of our ancestral holy land."[53] Pastor of the Canaan Baptist Church in Harlem, Reverend Jacques DeGraff, told the gathered mourners, "I'm here today because it is not enough for the friends of Israel to issue a statement."[54] The service was jointly sponsored by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the Consulate General of Israel in New York, the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, the UJA-Federation of New York, and Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun.[55]
Gary Rosenblatt, editor-in-chief of The Jewish Week, commented that reactions to the Itamar killings may have been more muted given that the victims were religious Israelis living in a small West Bank settlement. He stated that if the victims had been secular Jews living inside the Green Line "outrage would have been far greater".[56]
Italian
A delegation of Italian Jews from Rome visited Itamar on 30 March and extended a donation of €25,000 to support the three surviving children of the Fogel family. President of the Jewish community of Rome Riccardo Pacifici said, "We come with a message of solidarity and support."[57]
Finnish
A team of Finnish performers wrote a song in memory of the Fogel family for the annual Benei Akiva Jewish Eurovision contest, held this year in Rome, Italy. The team was inspired by the fact that daughter Tamar Fogel's life was spared owing to her being out of the house at the time of the attack, attending a Benei Akiva event.[58]
Official reactions
- Involved parties
- President Shimon Peres said, "This is one of the ugliest and most difficult events that we have known, the murder of parents with their small children – among them a three-year-old boy, and a five-month-old baby girl – while they were sleeping in their beds. It shows the loss of humanity... There is no religion in the world, no faith that allows for such horrendous acts."[59]
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that he was "deeply shocked" and that he stands behind the residents of Judea and Samaria, adding, "We will not allow terror to determine the settlement map." He also told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that it was not enough to condemn the violence because it "is against Palestinian interests," but because it is morally unacceptable. "I expect that you stop the incitement in the schools, school books and mosques, and educate your children toward peace, as we do. The murder of children in their sleep is murder for the sake of murder."[60] He blamed the terror attack on continuing incitement against Jews in the Palestinian Authority.[61]
- Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman visited the Fogel family's home in Itamar three days after the killings and expressed his admiration for the people of Itamar, stressing that it is "the state's duty to guarantee the security of Israel's residents" and that there should be no security compromises by Israel and no retreat to the 1967 borders. Lieberman also urged the Palestinian Authority to end incitement, stating that "we cannot talk peace with anyone talking about bloodshed, hatred, and murder. We must draw conclusions on the political level".[62]
- In what Haaretz described as "an unprecedented decision", the Israeli Minister of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Yuli Edelstein had decided to release horrific photographs from the scene of the attack. The photos show the stabbed and bleeding bodies of the members of the Fogel family, with only their faces blurred, as requested by their relatives.[63] Although the photographs were distributed to the international media, no serious news organization published them to date.[64]
- IDF Chief of Staff, Rav Aluf Benny Gantz, visited Itamar the day after the attack and vowed, "We will not rest until we lay our hands on the murderers. This incident is atrocious, its perpetrators capable of beastly crimes."[65] At a meeting of the IDF senior command early the following week, Gantz remarked, "I have seen many things in my life but I have never encountered such inhumanity."[66]
- Opposition leader Tzipi Livni expressed outrage over the attack but criticized the government decision to approve 500 housing units in Judea and Samaria as a response to the terror attack, because she felt it links the building to terror.[67]
- Arab-Israeli Knesset member Ahmad Tibi called the perpetrator a "coward", and said that "the Palestinian nation is ashamed of such people, who distort its image and its righteous struggle to free itself of the occupation. A struggle must be moral, conscionable, and fair. There are rules to the struggle against the occupation".[68]
- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas telephoned Prime Minister Netanyahu to condemn the attack.[15] In an interview with Israel Radio, he called it a despicable, immoral, and inhuman act, saying, "A human being is not capable of something like that." "Scenes like these – the murder of infants and children and a woman slaughtered – cause any person endowed with humanity to hurt and to cry."[69] Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu praised Abbas for condemning the murders but said that he must make his condemnation in Palestinian media as well.[70]
- Palestinian Authority Prime Minister, Salam Fayyad, said he "clearly and firmly denounces the terror attack, just as I have denounced crimes against Palestinians." During a tour in Bethlehem he said, "We are against all types of violence." "Our position has not changed. As we have said many times before, we categorically oppose violence and terror, regardless of the identity of the victims or the perpetrators."[9]
- Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki rejected accusations that Palestinians were behind the attack, stating that "killing an infant and slaughtering four other people from the same family in such a way had never been done by a Palestinian under any name for revenge. This would leave so many question marks on why the Israelis had immediately accused the Palestinians of committing it."[71]
- Minister of Religious Affairs Mahmoud Habbash condemned the attack as "a big crime against civilians in their homes, an inhuman crime." In a telephone interview with the Jerusalem Post Habbash insisted that the Palestinians "are against such crimes from both sides, and against any murders, whether from the Palestinian or Israeli side. We want to see all the civilians living in peace in the Holy Land."[72]
- Hamas official Ezzat Al-Rashak denied Hamas' responsibility for the attack, saying, "harming children is not part of Hamas' policy, nor is it the policy of the opposition factions."[73]
- The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine called it "a heroic attack," saying that "this attack is a proof that the Palestinians are able to go ahead with armed resistance and overcome all difficulties to reach the targets."[71]
- Supranational
- United Nations: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's office published a statement saying, "The Secretary-General condemns last night's shocking murder of an Israeli family of five, including three children, in a West Bank settlement. He calls for the perpetrators to be brought to justice, and for all to act with restraint."[74]
- Quartet on the Middle East representative Tony Blair said, "this brutal and appalling murder is shocking and deplorable," and sent his "deepest condolences and sympathy to those remaining members of the family and to the community."[75]
- International
- Australia: The Australian government condemned the attack and extended its condolences to the surviving family members and friends. Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd called the attack "a despicable act of terrorism" and said, "There can be no justification for the brutal murder of three innocent children and their parents."[76]
- Belgium: The Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement broadly condemning "the outburst of violence in Israel and in the Occupied Palestinian Territory," referring to the attack in Itamar, a subsequent bomb attack in Jerusalem, violence in the Gaza Strip, and missile attacks against Israeli citizens from Gaza. The statement said that Foreign Minister Steven Vanackere "very firmly condemns the use of any violence against civilians. It is intolerable to inflict terror by using random violence, endangering the lives of children, women and men."[77]
- Canada: Canadian Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon said in a statement, "The brutal killing of five Israelis, including children, cannot be justified." He called the atrocities "heinous acts of terror" and demanded the full cooperation of the Palestinian Authority in holding the murderers accountable.[78]
- Cyprus: Cypriot President Dimitris Christofias condemned the attack, calling its perpetrators "inhuman", and expressed condolences to the family and to the people of Israel.[79]
- France: Foreign Minister Alain Juppé said that "France utterly condemns the assassination of five members of an Israeli family yesterday in the settlement of Itamar, on the West Bank. Among the victims of this barbarous act were three children, including a baby", and offered his condolences to the family of the victims and the Israeli authorities. Juppé further stated that France "condemns all acts of violence in the occupied territories and calls for maximum restraint in order to prevent deterioration in the situation. The quest for peace through negotiations must prevail." The French consul-general in Jerusalem, Frédérique Desagleau, attended the funeral of the five victims. French Ambassador to Israel Christine Bigot visited the parents of Ruth Fogel to present condolences.[75][80]
- Germany: Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle condemned the "cruel and heinous" slayings, saying, "nothing can justify such attacks."[75]
- Greece: Greek Foreign Ministry spokesman Gregory Delavekouras stated that "we unequivocally codemn the murder of a five-member Israeli family – including three young children – and express our deep condolences and support to the relatives and friends. The murder of children in their sleep is an inconceivably ungodly, inhuman, and barbarous act", and called for the murderers to be brought to justice immediately. The statement also urged the peace process to continue and reiterated that the settlements were illegal, but stated that "any act of violence against civilians is condemnable, whatever its source".[81]
- Ireland: Irish Tánaiste and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Eamon Gilmore, condemned the murder of the Fogel family, calling it "an appalling act of violence" and "a senseless atrocity." Gilmore urged Israelis and Palestinians to resume direct peace talks and move toward "a just settlement, based on two States living side by side."[82]
- Italy: Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Gianfranco Fini, telephoned his Israeli counterpart, Reuven Rivlin, and denounced the attack as a "most terrible and tragic event." He offered condolences on behalf of the Italian people to the bereaved family and to the entire people of Israel.[83][84]
- Japan: The Japanese Foreign Ministry stated that "Japan strongly condemns the murder which occurred March 12 in Itamar, northern West Bank. Japan expresses its heartfelt sympathy for the victims and sends condolences to the bereaved relatives. Such an act cannot be justified for any reason, and any attempt to justify violence is unacceptable."[85]
- Netherlands: The Dutch Foreign Ministry expressed "outrage" at the killings, stating that "a crime like this can never be justified", called for all perpetrators to be brought to justice, and urged the Palestinian Authority to cooperate in arresting the suspects. It also stressed that it agreed with the Quartet in stressing the importance of achieving peace between Israel and it's neighbors. Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal offered condolences to the victims' family and Israel.[86]
- Norway: Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre released a statement saying, "I condemn the brutal killing of a family of six Israelis in the West Bank. This is a criminal act, and those responsible must be brought to justice as soon as possible."[87]
- Spain: The Foreign Ministry of Spain issued a statement condemning the attack "in the most energetic terms" and expressed hope that it would not lead to an escalation of violence in the region.[88]
- Turkey: Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu published a message on the ministry's website calling the attack "unacceptable." He stressed that the "act of terror, against innocent children is a crime that violates the most basic of rights, the right to life."[89]
- United Kingdom: Foreign Secretary William Hague said, "The friends and relatives of the family killed in Itamar have my deepest sympathies. This was an act of incomprehensible cruelty and brutality which I utterly condemn. We hope the perpetrator is swiftly brought to justice."[90]
- United States: White House spokesman Jay Carney said, "There is no possible justification for the killing of parents and children in their home. We call on the Palestinian Authority to unequivocally condemn this terrorist attack and for the perpetrators of this heinous crime to be held accountable."[91] Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, "I was shocked and deeply saddened to learn of the brutal murder of an Israeli family. The United States condemns this appalling attack in the strongest possible terms. To kill three innocent children and their parents while they sleep is an inhuman crime for which there can be no justification".[92]
See also
- August 2010 West Bank shooting attack
- List of violent incidents in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, 2011
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