Bedouin man who saved IDF soldiers from Oct. 7 Hamas ambush gets full residency rights

A Bedouin resident of the Negev who saved multiple Israel Defense Forces soldiers during Hamas’s October 7 massacre in southern Israel receives full Israeli residency rights.

Hamid Abu Ar’ar, a father of nine, heroically put himself in the line of fire to save the soldiers from a terrorist ambush shortly after his wife Fatima was murdered in front of him and his infant child on October 7.

Abu Ar’ar was born in the Gaza Strip and therefore did not have permanent status in Israel, Channel 13 reports.

“Aside from the uncompromising war on terror, we must strengthen those who show loyalty and choose life,” says Interior Minister Moshe Arbel after making the decision to issue permanent status to Abu Ar’ar.

Abu Ar’ar’s story of October 7 can be seen in the video below.

They killed a mother, a Muslim woman wearing a hijab. A mother of 4 daughters who study the Quran. Which Islam are we talking about? Our Islam, my friends, does not preach this."#Hamas terrorists did not distinguish between Jews and Arabs. Watch and share the heartbreaking… pic.twitter.com/xXz3trM2ZE

— האם ראית את האופק לאחרונה? (@Horizon_lately) November 19, 2023