Army: Teenager admits murdering settler family

A 19-year-old has confessed before an Israeli military tribunal to his involvement in the murder of a family of five Israeli settlers this year, the army said on Tuesday. An army statement said Amjad Awwad confessed to the the March 11 slayings in the West Bank settlement of Itamar. He is still to be sentenced, the army said. Amjad's cousin Hakim Awwad, 18, was sentenced to five consecutive life sentences last month for the murders. According to the charge sheet, the cousins, from the village of Awarta, acted of their own free will although both are members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. On the night of March 11, Ehud and Ruthie Fogel were stabbed to death along with their three children, including a three-month-old baby, in a murder that sparked international condemnation.