Palestinian PFLP member admits stabbing murders of 5 Fogel family members, slitting throats of 3 children including a 3 month old.

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8/3/11, "Fogel murders: Israeli court convicts Palestinian man," BBC

"An Israeli military court has found an 18-year-old Palestinian man guilty of the murder of a settler family in the West Bank, an army spokesman has said.

Hakim Awad had confessed to murdering Udi and Ruthie Fogel, and three of their children, as they slept in their home in the Itamar settlement in March.

His brother, 19-year-old Amjad Awad, is also standing trial for the attack....

The charge sheet states that Hakim Awad and Amjad Awad acted of their own free will, although they also belong to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a radical group which has carried out attacks on Israelis in the past.

The two men were alleged to have travelled from their village, Awarta, after dark on the night of the attack, cutting their way through Itamar's security fence and stealing an M-16 assault rifle and ammunition from an empty house.

At the Fogel home, two children - Yoav, 11 and Elad, four - were stabbed and killed after being seen in the window.

Parents Udi, 37, and Ruthie, 36, were next to die, stabbed and killed despite a struggle in their bedroom. Ruthie was also shot, the Haaretz newspaper reported.

The youngest victim, three-month-old Hadas, was killed last when she was spotted by the killers on their way out."...

• (To the BBC, saying they 'killed' a 3-month old doesn't sound as bad as "slitting her throat" which is what really happened:)

Glick: "Ruth Fogel was in the bathroom when the Palestinian terrorists pounced on her husband Udi and their three-month-old daughter Hadas, slitting their throats as they lay in bed on Friday night in their home in Itamar.

The terrorists stabbed Ruth to death as she came out of the bathroom. With both parents and the newborn dead, they moved on to the other children, going into a bedroom where Ruth and Udi’s sons Yoav (11) and Elad (four) were sleeping. They stabbed them through their hearts and slit their throats."...

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continuing, BBC: The bloody scene was discovered by another child, 12-year-old Tamar Fogel, as she returned home later in the evening."...

• (The BBC feels it necessary to provide what it views as background-perhaps something that was bothering the poor murderer. It echoes recent statements from the Norwegian ambassador to Israel):
  

BBC: "There are almost 500,000 settlers living on occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Settlements are regarded as illegal under international law although Israel disputes this."

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7/26/11, "Envoy contrasts terror in Israel, Norway," JTA (Globe News Service of Jewish people)

""We Norwegians consider the occupation to be the cause of the terror against Israel," he (Svein Sevje, Norway's Ambassador to Israel) said."

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3/14/11, "Our World: Three Jewish children," Jerusalem Post, Caroline Glick

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3/14/11, "Dead Jews is no news," Mark Steyn, The Corner

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Soros group J Street objected to mention of the Fogel murders in general US discussion of Israel borders:

"J Street Statement on the Rothman-Austria Letter on Incitement and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict"

• "J Street objects to the letter’s use of the horrifying murder of an Israeli family in the West Bank" which it says it's on record condemning. (And doesn't want anymore talk about apparently).
  

(I could not find a date on the J Street web page. But the Fogel murders, also known as the 'Itamar murders' took place in March 2011. Further discussion of J Street reaction to the Fogel murders in AT article below.ed.)

4/1/11, "Incitement by Palestinian Arabs: The Role of J Street," American Thinker, Lawrence W. White, MD

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Murdered members of Fogel family

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