كتائب عز الدين القسام
On August 31, 2010 four residents of Beit Hagai—Yitzhak and Tali Ames, Kochava Even Haim and Avishai Schindler—were shot dead by local Palestinian militants while driving a car near the settlement. Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian organization Hamas, claimed responsibility for the attack.