Thread by @AndrewGetraer

#OnThisDay 7 yrs ago 2 Palestinian cousins, Amjad Mahmad Awad (18) & Hakim Mazen Awad (17) murdered a Jewish family in their beds. They stabbed to death a mother Ruth (35), father Udi (36), 2 young boys Yoav (11) & Elad (4) and decapitated a baby girl, Hadas (3 months).

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The #Fogel family massacre was so horrific even Palestinian Authority Pres. Mahmoud Abbas and PM Salam Fayyad condemned the attack. Still, the Palestinian govt has paid over $132,000 to the killers as a REWARD. This Pay-for-Slay policy must be stopped.
clevelandjewishnews.com/jns/another-ba…

Pay-for-Slay refers to the Martyrs Fund paid by the Palestinian Authority. It pays lifetime salaries to terrorists and it pays a lot. In 2017 the PA paid $345M in blood money - equal to half the $693 million that the PA receives as foreign aid. This is a moral outrage.

Despite global criticism and aid cuts by US, Australia, Holland & others, Palestinian Pres. Abbas says the PA will spend its last penny paying these murderers. Think about that. Then think about the men who decapitated Hadas Fogel in her crib. They get a check every month.

Because people asked: The murderers were arrested, indicted on 5 counts of murder, weapons theft, breaking & entering, and conspiracy. There was DNA evidence and fingerprints. Eventually they confessed. Each received 5 life sentences. To my knowledge they are still in jail.