The initial findings of the investigation into the terrorist massacre in the Israeli town of Itamar in Samaria Friday night show that the Fatah ‘Freedom Fighters’ stabbed the Fogel family's sleeping three year old in the heart and slashed the throat of his three-month-old sister.
The IDF and police forces are conducting widespread searches in the vicinity of the community since the barbaric terrorist murder of five members of the Fogel family in their home on Friday night.
It is not yet clear how many terrorists took part in the massacre. About 20 Arabs have been arrested up to now.
One area in which the IDF is concentrating its investigations is whether there were any intelligence warnings of terrorist plans before the attack that might have alerted residents.
The community of Itamar has had no terrorist attacks since 2002, when an advanced protection and security system called the Special Security Area was installed. The electronic system, which includes varied methods of observation and a wired fence, is kept in repair by the regional authority rather than the IDF.
In addition to an electronic fence surrounding the community, there is an inner, coiled wire fence. The community is allotted six non-army security personnel from a recognized security firm who are on patrol all the time. All signals go automatically to a central operations room in the town staffed by two of these guards, and in addition there is a company of soldiers on the adjoining hill.
The IDF investigation of the attack has discovered that at 20:59, terrorists entered the community. They jumped over the fence and an alert sounded. The guard on duty went to the spot from which the warning was heard, but saw no evidence of infiltration and therefore, made the erroneous decision that an animal had activated the electronic fence’s warning signal.
A security person who was in the vicinity said that since the fence was not cut, the guard thought there was no infiltration and did not inform the IDF unit that was less than a kilometer away.
The terrorists first entered one home, which was empty. They found a weapon there, which they do not seem to have used. A group of youngsters was having a Sabbath evening party at the Fogel house nearby, and at 22:20 they left, along with the Fogel’s 12-year-old daughter, for an activity at the local Bnei Akiva youth group.
Between 22:20 and 22:30 the terrorists entered the house through the living room picture window, did not notice the 6-year-old boy sleeping on the couch and continued on to the bedroom where they slashed the throats of the father and newborn baby who were sleeping there. The mother came out of the bathroom and was stabbed on its threshold. The evidence shows that she tried to fight the terrorists.
They then slashed the throat of the 11-year old-son who was reading in bed. They did not notice the 2-year old asleep in his bed, but murdered the 3-year old with two stabs to his heart. After that, they locked the door, exited through the window and escaped.
Exactly two hours after the infiltration, there was another warning signal from the same spot on the fence, as the terrorists left the way they had come. Once again, the patrol did not identify the source of the signal as infiltration.
The 12-year-old daughter returned home at 00:30 and found the door locked. She asked a neighbor, Rabbi Yaakov Cohen, of the Itamar Yeshiva, to help her. He brought a weapon with him once he noticed tracks and mud near the house. The two woke up the 6-year old sleeping in the living room by calling through the window and when he opened the door, the Rabbi returned to his home.
When she entered the bedrooms, the young daughter saw the horrific bloodsoaked scene and ran out of the house screaming. The neighbor ran back and fired several shots in the air to alert security personnel. Within a short time, large police and IDF forces arrived and began intensive searches to see if the terrorists were still in the community. At 03:30 a.m., military trackers discovered footprints leading to the Arab village of Avrata.
“Sky Riders” Israeli UAV’s (unmanned aerial vehicles), continued the search Saturday morning.
The IDF Chief of Staff, General Benny Gantz, arrived at the family’s home during the morning hours and said: “We will not rest until the murderers are in our hands. This is a bestial act perpetrated by barbarians. It is impossible to grasp the horrendous scene before us. We are working non-stop on the intelligence and operational fronts.”
Defense Minister Ehud Barak held a situation meeting in IDF Tel Aviv headquarters. Attending were the Chief of Staff, ISA head Yuval Diskin and other high ranking IDF intelligence and security personnel. Barak instructed those present to use every means at their disposal to find the murderers as quickly as possible. He called on the leaders of the Palestinian Authority to condemn the murders and on the Judea and Samaria Regional Authority Heads to exercise restraint.
It has been ongoing..Asia Minor 1915-1922; the ethnic cleansing in the mid 1950s of Istabul and then the Cyprus invasion in the 70s.
Kosovo and Bosnia. South Sudan. Nigeria. and on and on
The “west” usually does nothing to help embattled Chrstians and sometimes actively assists the muslims to do their dirty work as in Cyprus and Kosovo—and they would do the same in Chechnya but the Russians are back in form thankfully.
Islam is the scourge of civilized man.
Don’t “search” for the killers. Just waste ‘em all and let God sort them out.
Am I still supposed to believe that people like these POS are simply a radical faction of a Religion of Peace (tm) or may I now believe that they are rank and file members of a Religion of War?
I will not live in a cage like an animal while the real animals run free to murder.
In Samaria...
Jesus answered, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side. In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion, came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, and gave them to the host, and said to him, ‘Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.’ Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbour to him who fell among the robbers?”
He said, “He who showed mercy on him.”
Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”
Subhumans.
Israel, retaliate!
It seems to me that whoever surrenders to Islam invites a demon to possess his soul. These people are completely inhuman.
It seems to me that whoever surrenders to Islam invites a demon to possess his soul. These people are completely inhuman.
monsters they are
These people are barbarians who do not value human life. Left to their own devices they will kill each other off.
One more reason we should stay away from the Libyan tribal war.
ממזרים מלוכלכים ,בני חזירים וזונות
סרוח, חרא מטונף
בדיוק כמו הנאצים: אין הבדל ביניהם כלל
השם יקום דמם
I would kill a Thousand of the subhuman savages for every innocent Jew that is killed.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Prayers for this family and the surviving loved ones who will have to deal with this horror for the rest of their lives.
There is no such thing as a moderate Muslim - period. They are extolled by the Koran to lie and lie they do. They give infrequent lip service condemning atrocities such as this when in their heart they rejoice.
Muslims want nothing less than total world domination and painful death to those who refuse their ‘faith’.
Hairy-tailed, knuckle-dragging, sub-human mohammedan filth...
Find them, flay them and feed their parts to pigs.
I can`t express my hatred toward the islam cult strongly enough.
And we`re somehow supposed to help moslems in Libya??
Hell, no!!!!
HaShem Yikom Damo—May G-d avenge their blood. This is what happens when Bibi appeases the arab enemy, tears down Jewish homes in Samaria and Judea, the enemy smells weakness and attacks.