Murder of Hatuel family

Killing of Tali Hatuel and her four daughters
Part of the Second Intifada
The attack site
Location	Kissufim Crossing
Coordinates	31°22′40.93″N 34°21′27.22″E / 31.3780361°N 34.3575611°E / 31.3780361; 34.3575611
Date	May 2, 2004 12:40 pm – (UTC+3)
Attack type	Shooting attack
Weapons	Automatic rifles
Deaths	An 8 months pregnant mother and her 4 children (+ 2 attackers)
Non-fatal injuries	2 IDF soldiers, 1 Israeli civilian
Perpetrator	Two assailants (Ibrahim Hammad and Faisal Abu Maj'ra). The Islamic Jihad and the Popular Resistance Committees claimed responsibility

The Murder of the Hatuel family was a shooting attack on May 2, 2004, in which Palestinian militants killed Tali Hatuel, a Jewish settler, who was eight months pregnant, and her four daughters, aged two to ten. The attack took place near the Kissufim Crossing near their home in Gush Katif bloc of Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip during the Second Intifada. After shooting at the vehicle in which Hatuel was driving with her daughters, witnesses said the militants approached the vehicle and shot the occupants repeatedly at close range.

An alliance of Islamic Jihad and the Popular Resistance Committees claimed responsibility for the attack, stating that it was carried out in reprisal for the assassinations of Hamas leaders Sheikh Ahmad Yassin and Abdelaziz Rantisi by the Israeli army some weeks earlier.

The attack shocked the Israeli public, and was classified by Amnesty International as a crime against humanity. On June 6, 2007, the IDF arrested Jihad Salah Saliman Abu Dahar, a Palestinian member of Islamic Jihad from the Khan Yunis area, who according to Shin Bet officials admitted to several acts of violence, including the attack on Hatuel and her daughters.

In 1992 David and Tali Hatuel, a Jewish Israeli couple, moved from Ofakim, in southern Israel, to the Israeli settlement Katif located in the Gush Katif bloc in the Gaza Strip. David Hatuel was familiar with Gush Katif having studied in a yeshiva there. After 3 years the couple left for 18 months but returned once they had completed their studies. Tali worked as a social worker with the Gaza Coast Regional Council. Her work included counseling Israelis whose relatives had been killed in the conflict. David worked as a school principal in Ashkelon. They had four daughters and Tali was eight months pregnant with a son when she was killed.