Saturday, March 12, 2011

Five killed in attack on a Jewish settlement in West Bank

.- Five Israelis have been killed this morning in an attack on the Jewish settlement of Itamar, southeast of Nablus in the northern West Bank occupied Palestinian territory, confirmed a spokesman for the Israeli Army. The five are from the same family: two parents and three of his sons (one of eleven years, another three and a baby), who were sleeping at home when the bomber entered, according to local media.

According to initial reports, five men were stabbed, while another three stems of the same family managed to escape and warn the neighbors. Some neighbors say they heard, and firing. The attack took place around one o'clock local time (23:00 GMT). The Army has conducted an extensive deployment in search of terrorist roadblocks in the area and around the city of Nablus.

It also asked the remaining settlers to stay in their homes, said a military spokesman. Dani Dayan, head of the Yesha Council, which represents Jewish settlers moved to Itamar, which called the attack "without doubt one of the hardest in recent years." There are no words to describe the atrocity and pain .

Who started thinking that the Palestinians have left out the killings, is that they do not ignore any method or Jewish victim, "he said, Dayánsegún digital edition of the newspaper" Yediot Aharonot. " It is the most serious attack on Israelis since March 2008 when a Palestinian entered a Jewish religious school in Jerusalem and killed eight students with an automatic weapon.

Itamar, home to a thousand religious nationalist Jewish settlers, was the scene of a similar attack in 2002, in which a Palestinian shot dead in her home to mother and three children, and a security guard. The attack broke a dynamic point of attacks against Israelis, compared with the frequency of initiation of the last decade, the hardest years of the Second Intifada.

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