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==Victims==
==Victims==
The victims were five members of the Fogel family who had recently moved to Itamar. The family previously lived in the [[Gush Katif]] settlement bloc in the Gaza Strip. Upon being [[Israel's unilateral disengagement plan|evicted by the government]] in 2005, they relocated to the settlement [[Ariel (city)|Ariel]], and finally settled in Itamar.
The victims are five members of the Fogel family who had recently moved to Itamar. The family previously lived in the [[Gush Katif]] settlement in the Gaza Strip, which was evacuated in 2005, then moved to the settlement [[Ariel (city)|Ariel]], and finally to Itamar.
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[[File:Fogel.jpg|right|thumb||Funeral of the victims in [[Givat Shaul]]]]


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! Name
! Name
! Age
! Age
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| rowspan="2" colspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '''Parents'''
| Udi Fogel
| Udi Fogel
|align="center" | 36
| 36
| Rabbi and teacher in the post-high school yeshiva in Itamar<ref>{{cite web|last=Ben Gedalyahu|first=Tvzi|title= Itamar Massacre Victims Expelled from Gush Katif in 'Peace Plan’| url=http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/142847|publisher=Arutz Sheva|date=13 March 2011|accessdate=13 March 2011}}</ref>
| Rabbi and Teacher at the post-high school [[yeshiva]] in Itamar<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Memorial/2011/Itamar/Udi_Fogel.htm|title=Udi Fogel|work=In Memory of the Victims of Palestinian Violence and Terrorism in Israel|date=11 March 2011|publisher=[[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Israel)]]|accessdate=17 March 2011}}</ref>
|-
|-
| Ruth Fogel
| Ruth Fogel
|align="center" | 35
| 35
| <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Memorial/2011/Itamar/Ruth_Fogel.htm|title=Ruth Fogel|work=In Memory of the Victims of Palestinian Violence and Terrorism in Israel|date=11 March 2011|publisher=[[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Israel)]]|accessdate=17 March 2011}}</ref>
| Wife of Udi Fogel; mother of Tamar, Yoav, Roi, Elad, Yishai and Hadas
|-
|-
| rowspan="3" colspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '''Children'''
| Yoav Fogel
| Yoav Fogel
|align="center" | 11
| 11
| <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Memorial/2011/Itamar/Yoav_Fogel.htm|title=Yoav Fogel|work=In Memory of the Victims of Palestinian Violence and Terrorism in Israel|date=11 March 2011|publisher=[[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Israel)]]|accessdate=15 March 2011}}</ref>
| son of Udi and Ruth
|-
|-
| Elad Fogel
| Elad Fogel
|align="center" | 4
| 4
| <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Memorial/2011/Itamar/Elad_Fogel.htm|title=Elad Fogel|work=In Memory of the Victims of Palestinian Violence and Terrorism in Israel|date=11 March 2011|publisher=[[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Israel)]]|accessdate=15 March 2011}}</ref>
| son of Udi and Ruth
|-
|-
| Hadas Fogel
| Hadas Fogel
| 3 months
|align="center" | 3 months
| <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Memorial/2011/Itamar/Hadas_Fogel.htm|title=Hadas Fogel|work=In Memory of the Victims of Palestinian Violence and Terrorism in Israel|date=11 March 2011|publisher=[[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Israel)]]|accessdate=15 March 2011}}</ref>
| daughter of Udi and Ruth
|}
|}


They are survived by three children, aged 12, 6 and 2, who were being cared for by grandparents in the aftermath of the attack.<ref name="guact"/>
They are survived by three children, Tamar, age 12, Roi, 6 and Yishai, 2 who are being cared for by grandparents in the aftermath of the attack.<ref name="guact"/> The 12 year old Tamar 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."<ref>{{cite news|title='I Will Be Their Mother' Says 12 Year Old Tamar Fogel|url=http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/142906|accessdate=17 March 2011|newspaper=[[Arutz Sheva]]|date=15 March 2011|accessdate=17 Mars 2011|author=Uzi Baruch}}</ref>

==Funeral==
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[[File:Fogel.jpg|right|thumb||Funeral of the victims in [[Givat Shaul]]]]


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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."<ref>{{cite web|last=Medzini| first=Ronen| title=20,000 attend Itamar massacre victims' funeral | url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4041585,00.html|publisher=CNN|date=13 March 2011|accessdate=13 March 2011}}</ref>
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Ruth Fogel's father was quoted as having said, "[O]ur 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."<ref>{{cite web|last=|first=|title=Israel approves settlement increase after family killed| url=http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/03/13/west.bank.settlements/index.html?hpt=T2|publisher=CNN|date=13 March 2011|accessdate=13 March 2011}}</ref> Eldest daughter Tamar Fogel, 12, 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."<ref>{{cite news|title='I Will Be Their Mother' Says 12 Year Old Tamar Fogel|url=http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/142906|accessdate=17 March 2011|newspaper=[[Arutz Sheva]]|date=15 March 2011|author=Uzi Baruch}}</ref>


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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."<ref>{{cite web|last=|first=|title=Israel approves settlement increase after family killed| url=http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/03/13/west.bank.settlements/index.html?hpt=T2|publisher=CNN|date=13 March 2011|accessdate=13 March 2011}}</ref>
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On 13 March 2011, two days after the killings, the funeral of the five victims was held in [[Givat Shaul]], [[Jerusalem]], with some 20,000 people in attendance. 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."<ref>{{cite web|last=Medzini| first=Ronen| title=20,000 attend Itamar massacre victims' funeral | url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4041585,00.html|publisher=CNN|date=13 March 2011|accessdate=13 March 2011}}</ref>


==Responsibility==
==Responsibility==

Revision as of 16:55, 17 March 2011

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Itamar killings

Itamar
LocationItamar, West Bank, Palestinian territories (Area C)
DateMarch 11, 2011
Midnight (GMT+2)
TargetAn Israeli-Jewish family living in the Israeli settlement Itamar
Attack type
Stabbing attack
WeaponsKnife
Deaths5 (3 children)

The Itamar killings were 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 same family were stabbed to death in their beds. The victims are the father, mother and three of their six children, the youngest a three-month-old infant; two other children, who were also in the house, were not harmed. The killings were discovered by the eldest daughter when she arrived home.[1] Before the killings the settlement of Itamar had been the target of several other murderous attacks.[2]

According to a first probe, two perpetrators whom Israeli officials believe are Palestinian, 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.[3]

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, including the Palestinian National Authority, as well as by a number of non-governmental organizations.

The attack

Itamar in 2007

Israeli authorities estimate that two murderers took part in the attack.[4] An initial probe showed serious failures in the functioning of the security forces at Itamar, and the pursuit of the perpetrators began very late. According to the probe, the fence around Itamar functioned properly. When the terrorists infiltrated, just after 9 p.m. on Friday night, an alarm sounded in the settlement's security room, indicating the exact location where they. The settlement's civilian security team and security officer went to the site, but saw no evidence of an infiltration, concluding that an animal had set off the alarm, and chose not to inform soldiers patrolling the area of the fence, although procedures prescribe that the Israeli Army is to be informed of any alarm.[5]

The perpetrators first broke into a house of a family who was on vacation, searching all the rooms.[6] They apparently waited for an hour and entered the Fogels' house at around 10:30 p.m. They did not notice the 6-year old boy sleeping on the couch, and moved to the parents' bedroom, where they slit the father's throat and decapitated the 3-month old baby.[7] The mother was stabbed as she came out of the bathroom, evidence showing that she had attempted to fight them off. They then entered the boys' room, and slit the throat of the 11-year old boy reading in bed, and stabbed the 3-year old boy twice in the chest, but did not notice the 2-year old sleeping in the same room.[8] The murderers left the house at around 11 p.m. without being detected.[5]

The bodies were discovered by the 12-year-old daughter of the family who arrived home around midnight after a youth outing.[9] 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."[10] Paramedics 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 4-year-old boy was severely injured and dying. The toddler died of his wounds despite the efforts of medical personnel.[9]

Victims

The victims are five members of the Fogel family who had recently moved to Itamar. The family previously lived in the Gush Katif settlement in the Gaza Strip, which was evacuated in 2005, then moved to the settlement Ariel, and finally to Itamar.

Victims
Name Age
Parents Udi Fogel 36 Rabbi and Teacher at the post-high school yeshiva in Itamar[11]
Ruth Fogel 35 [12]
Children Yoav Fogel 11 [13]
Elad Fogel 4 [14]
Hadas Fogel 3 months [15]

They are survived by three children, Tamar, age 12, Roi, 6 and Yishai, 2 who are being cared for by grandparents in the aftermath of the attack.[10] The 12 year old Tamar 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."[16]

Funeral

Funeral of the victims in Givat Shaul

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."[17]

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."[18]

Responsibility

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,[10] 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 liason 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.[19]

Due to the characteristics of the killings, the Israel Defense Forces believe that the attack was not carried out by an organized terrorist infrastructure but was the work of one or two people, presumably Palestinian.[20] One theory was that the killings may have been in revenge for the killing of two Palestinian teenagers from the nearby village of Awarta, who were shot dead while collecting garbage near Itamar last year.[9]

The Jerusalem Post reports that Palestinian media 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 imposed on the investigation prevented Israeli authorities from commenting.[21]

Responses

Israeli

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 that, according to an Israeli government official, will remain in Israel's control in any possible peace agreement with the Palestinians.[22] 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.[23]

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.[24] The previously-dismantled Huwwara Checkpoint was re-established.[5] 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.[24] IDF soldiers and Israel Border Police gendarmes also entered the villages of Awarta, Sanur, and Zababdeh, arresting several dozen Palestinians.[20] Israeli authorities conducted mass arrests of Palestinians throughout the following days. According to Palestinian sources, all men from Awarta were questioned.

Large Israeli military and police forces were deployed near Nablus to prevent clashes between Jewish settlers and Palestinians after the killings.[25] 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 Kiryat Arba, and police and IDF forces also deployed in major intersections throughout the West Bank.

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 attacks were cited as acts of retaliation. [26] [27] Israeli settlers handed out leaflets threatening the lives of villagers in Beitillu, near Ramallah, and vandalized Palestinian property in Hebron.[28] 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.[29] Small demonstrations against the attack broke out in Israel. 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".[29]

The following day, some 200 settlers marched from Itamar into Awarta to protest the killings, and 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.[30]

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.[31]

The settlers' Yesha Council and a Jerusalem based public relations firm emailed graphic photographs of the bodies to journalists. Israeli government officials decided not to distribute the images after initially considering such a move.[32]

Palestinian

Palestinians retaliated to settler attacks by throwing stones at Israeli vehicles in the West Bank.[33] Some Palestinian residents of the village of Awarta, who had previously clashed with settlers from Itamar for a number of years, denounced the killings.[9]

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."[34]

Reactions

Involved parties

 Israel:

  • 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."[35]
  • 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."[36] He blamed the terror attack on continuing incitement against Jews in the Palestinian Authority.[37]
  • Opposition leader Tzipi Livni expressed outrage over the attack but criticized the government decision to approve 500 housing units in Judea and Samaria and the terror attack, because she felt it links the building to terror.[38]
  • 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."[39] 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."[40]

 Palestinian territories:

  • Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas telephoned Prime Minister Netanyahu to condemn the attack.[10] 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."[41] Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu praised Abbas for condemning the murders but said that he must make his condemnation in Palestinian media as well.[42]
  • 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."[34]
  • 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."[43]
  • 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."[44]
  • 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."[43]
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."[45]
  • 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."[46]
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."[47]
  •  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.[48]
  •  Cyprus: Cypriot President Dimitris Christofias condemned the attack, calling its perpetrators "inhuman", and expressed condolences to the family and to the people of Israel.[49]
  •  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.[50][46]
  •  Germany: Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle condemned the "cruel and heinous" slayings, saying, "nothing can justify such attacks."[46]
  •  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."[51]
  •  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.[52][53]
  •  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."[54]
  •  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.[55]
  •  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."[56]
  •  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."[57]
  •  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."[58] 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."[59]

See also

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