Two Palestinians were arrested for the murder, March 11, five members of a family of Israelis in a colony of the northern West Bank, say, Sunday, April 17, the internal security service Shin Beth and the police. Five alleged accomplices were also arrested, said the Shin Beth. The suspects, two cousins aged 17 and 19 years, inhabitants of the Palestinian town of Awarta, two kilometers from the settlement of Itamar, where the killings took place, acknowledged the facts, provides the police.
They have also agreed to participate in a reconstruction. Hakim and Amdjad are family members of Jibril Awwad, a militant of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), killed four years ago by the Israeli army in Nablus. Four of the five alleged accomplices belong to the same family, police said.
The two young murderers also belong to the PFLP, a radical left organization of the Palestinians. On the night of March 11 to 12, a settler couple in Itamar, Ehud and Ruthy Fogel, had been stabbed to death with three of their children, including an infant, a murder that shocked Israel deeply.
The police and Shin Beth have established that "the two murderers, armed with daggers, were initially killed two children aged 11 and 14 years of family Fogel, then their parents, and finally a baby aged three months, before departing at Awarta carried a M-16 rifle and ammunition belonging to Udi (Ehud) Fogel, "the father.
During its investigation, the Israeli army has detained several hundred residents of Awarta, a town of 7,000 souls, taking their fingerprints and DNA. Not less than 1 500 houses in this city - where a curfew had been imposed - were raided and hundreds of suspects, men and women, were apprehended and interrogated by the Shin Beth. 
They have also agreed to participate in a reconstruction. Hakim and Amdjad are family members of Jibril Awwad, a militant of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), killed four years ago by the Israeli army in Nablus. Four of the five alleged accomplices belong to the same family, police said.
The two young murderers also belong to the PFLP, a radical left organization of the Palestinians. On the night of March 11 to 12, a settler couple in Itamar, Ehud and Ruthy Fogel, had been stabbed to death with three of their children, including an infant, a murder that shocked Israel deeply.
The police and Shin Beth have established that "the two murderers, armed with daggers, were initially killed two children aged 11 and 14 years of family Fogel, then their parents, and finally a baby aged three months, before departing at Awarta carried a M-16 rifle and ammunition belonging to Udi (Ehud) Fogel, "the father.
During its investigation, the Israeli army has detained several hundred residents of Awarta, a town of 7,000 souls, taking their fingerprints and DNA. Not less than 1 500 houses in this city - where a curfew had been imposed - were raided and hundreds of suspects, men and women, were apprehended and interrogated by the Shin Beth.
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