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Itamar Murderers: "We Would Have Killed the Two Other Children But Didn't Know They Were There"

(Jerusalem Post) Yaakov Lappin - On the night of March 11, Hakim Awad and Amjad Awad entered the Fogel residence where they stabbed Yoav and Elad in their beds, killing them both. They then entered the parents' bedroom where they attacked Ehud and Ruth Fogel. The parents fought back. Ruth was shot dead and Ehud died of stab wounds. The two men left the house, but then they heard three-month-old Hadas crying. "They went back into the house and stabbed the baby to death." Two other children were in the home, but were spared because the murderers did not know they were there. Amjad later told interrogators that he would have killed them, too, had he known they were in the house. After returning to their village, "they received much support from family members and friends," a security source said.
2011-04-18 00:00:00
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