Rescued Bedouin hostage eulogizes childhood friend Youssef Ziyadne

8 January 2025, 8:28 pm

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Rescued hostage Farhan al-Qadi, 52, meets his relatives and friends after arriving in the Khirbet Karkur village, near Rahat, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP/Mahmoud Illean)

Rescued hostage Farhan al-Qadi eulogizes his former neighbor and fellow hostage Youssef Ziyadne after his body was recovered from Gaza.

“Everyone in our home is crying, we hoped to see them alive,” says al-Qadi, a fellow Bedouin Israeli who was kidnapped on October 7 and rescued by the IDF from a tunnel in Gaza in August 2024.

“Youssef, my friend, my neighbor, my childhood friend. It’s very hard. We need to end this war and bring them home, everyone. He was a friend to everyone, a father to everyone, he doesn’t deserve this — nobody does.”