Tali Hatuel
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Tali Hatuel
Tali Hatuel, was an Israeli social worker who was killed with her four daughters, Hila (11), Hadar (9), Roni (7), and Meirav (2), on May 2 2004, by armed Palestinian militants. She was eight months pregnant with her fifth child.
Hatuel was driving from central Israel to her home of 12 years in the Israeli settlement of Gush Katif (near Rafah in the Gaza Strip), when she and her four girls were shot at and forced off the road. Hatuel was wounded in the initial attack. Militants armed with fully-automatic AK-47 Kalashnikov rifles then approached the vehicle to within point blank range and shot repeatedly, killing Hatuel and her four daughters. Both The Popular Resistance Committees and Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the deaths.
She had just picked up her children from school and was on her way to Ashkelon, to her husband's work; travelling in the vicinity of the Kissufim Crossing. The militants involved had launched their attack from a group of nearby buildings, and were later killed by Israeli Defense Force. The IDF had earlier sought to demolish these buildings, under claims of a security risk, but were prevented from so doing by the Israeli Supreme Court.[1] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=62175).
Tributes to Hatuel family
On June 16, 2004, Ben-Gurion University in the Negev awarded Tali Hatuel a posthumous Masters of Arts degree in Social Work. Her husband, David Hatuel, accepted the degree on her behalf.
On July 25, 2004, her husband David Hatuel was given a place of prominence near the Western Wall in the human chain from the Gaza Strip to Jerusalem protesting against Israel's plan to unilaterally disengage in which over 130,000 Israelis took part.
Related attacks
On May 9, 2004, two militants, dressed in women's clothing [2] (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/10/international/middleeast/10mide.html), opened fire upon individuals participating in a memorial service for Tali Hatuel and her four daughters. [3] (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Israel-Palestinians.html). There were no civilian injuries. The attackers were killed by the Israel Defense Forces. An alliance of Islamic Jihad and the Popular Resistance Committees for the killings. [4] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3679395.stm)
On May 10, 2004, the Israel Defense Forces demolished some of the houses that provided cover to the terrorists during the attack on Tali Hatuel and her daughters, as well as the attack on the mourners at her memorial service one week later. (INN) (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=62141)
External links
- Maariv (http://www.maarivintl.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&articleID=6772)
- INN (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=61758)
- Amnesty International (http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE150492004?open&of=ENG-ISR) classifies attack as Crime against humanity
- Independent Media Review Analysis (http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=20645)
- Thousands mourn slain mother, girls (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/422728.html) (HaAretz)
- Gunmen kill Jewish settler family (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3679395.stm) (BBC)he:טלי חתואל