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One neighbor told of how she met Ruth just hours before she was murdered. "Friday was a regular day, business as usual, everything was fine. After I lit the Shabbat candles I went to visit Ruth. We never thought something like this could happen," she said.

At around 10 pm the eldest daughter, Tamar, left the house, thus saving herself from the attack that followed. One neighbor said that she hadn't heard any screams from the Fogel house. "It seems that the terrorists were professional, quick and precise."

Tamar's screams filled the air at around 40 minutes past midnight, when she found the bodies of her parents and siblings.

"My husband went out with his weapon cocked after we heard the screams. She ran and we were sure that a terrorist was chasing her and that she was trying to escape. She just cried and we hugged her. We brought her and her two brothers into our house and rushed to lock the door and windows. We thought the attacker was still outside.

She added that the other boy was in shock: "He didn't respond, he was quiet and didn't even cry. My husband told him that his father will come back soon and his sister Tamar couldn't bear to hear that. I hadn't realized what happened so I asked where the rest of the children were. My husband whispered that they were murdered. I did what needed to be done and remained vigilant. I put my fears aside until the security forces arrived."

Blame on government

Roee, who lives in the house adjacent to the Fogel's house, spoke of his murdered neighbors: "This is a family who was evicted from Netzarim and decided to settle here. Ideological people, people of action. Ruthy was a very deep, quiet and spiritual woman.

"Udi, her husband, was a very special person who combined the spiritual with the material. He taught at the yeshiva and educated the youngsters here to take a path of good deeds and actions. This event is hard on all of us, we're still in shock and trying to process what happened."

Haim Fogel, Udi Fogel's father and grandfather of the three children murdered in the Itamar terror attack, told journalists Sunday: "We will not forgive or forget. Life goes on and the heart tends to forget, but this isn't the first heinous murder. Our dead join hundreds of our nation's dead. Another killed and another and everyone continues with their daily routine.

"How long will we stay silent? When will we stop groveling? When will the nation wake up and tell the government no more, when will our enemies get what they deserve? But we don't turn ourselves to acts of vengeance. God will avenge the spilled blood of his servant," he added.