English Wikipedia already gives details about these gruesome murders:
...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...
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."
........
Already on Saturday the ministerial team on settlements announced their approval to construct several hundred units at Gush Etzion, Maale Adumim, Ariel and Kiriat Sefer, settlement blocs that Israel expects to hold on to in any final peace deal.
........
The Friday night murders caused also the following events described in an article by Akiva Eldar in the English edition of the Haaretz on Tuesday, March 22, 2011 Adar II 16, 5771
"Machsom Watch volunteers have documented in words and pictures the scenes at the homes of the village of Awarta adjacent to Itamar, which was honored on the day after the murder with a visit from Israel Defense Forces soldiers: crushed furniture, smashed door locks, pulverized electrical appliances, broken walls and contents of cupboards strewn everywhere mixed with remains of food and excrement. A number of inhabitants have complained of thefts of jewelry and cash.
For four days the village was under curfew and all the entrances to it were blocked. Hundreds of soldiers invaded all the houses, put the men aged 15 to 55 up against the wall, cuffed their hands, stripped them and conducted body searches on them. More than 50 men were taken away under arrest. During the course of all this, settlers from Itamar entered the village and right before the soldiers' eyes hurled stones at the houses, accompanying this with cries of "Death to the Arabs." Three homes were damaged and in a number of courtyards locks on well covers were broken open and water spilled out everywhere.
Upon the soldiers' exit from the village, the settlers invaded the property of one of the inhabitants, uprooted 120 olive trees and with the help of bulldozers flattened the land and paved an access road from Itamar to the new outpost they established there, and another road in the direction of the road leading to the settlement of Elon Moreh. All this on lands of the village, of which the inhabitants publicly condemned the murder in Itamar. All this under the open eyes of IDF soldiers and Civil Administration inspectors.
...
"These claims are not known," the IDF spokesman has informed Haaretz in reply. "The IDF detail that acted only in the village of Awarta apprehended a number of suspects in the murder at Itamar and confiscated dozens of weapons. Representatives of the civil administration who accompanied the force maintained continuous communication with the population of the village. The IDF urges inhabitants who feel they have been done an injustice to submit a complaint via the relevant agencies including the investigative military police."
Akiva Eldar: After Libya, Obama will have hard time thwarting Palestinian state
Haaretz,
No comments:
Post a Comment