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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 349

Rahat

Released hostage Farhan al-Qadi, right, hugs a well-wisher as he arrives his home in the Bedouin village of Khirbet Karkur, near Rahat, southern Israel, August 28, 2024. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)
August 28, 2024, 7:06 pm
Rescued captive calls to ‘put an end’ to hostage saga as crowd cheers his return home
Brother of Farhan al-Qadi says terrorists shot him in leg before taking him to Gaza, where he was treated without anesthetic and held without sunlight for months
By ToI Staff and AP
Rescued hostage Farhan al-Qadi at Beersheba's Soroka Hospital, on August 27, 2024. (Yossi Ifergan/GPO)
August 28, 2024, 4:45 am
Former Rahat mayor says rescued hostage told him another captive died by his side
Info can’t be immediately verified; Ata Abu Madighem says Farhan al-Qadi ‘has many [terrible] memories’ and that his captors ‘treated him as an Israeli in every respect’
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A police car in Rishon Lezion on July 3, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
August 26, 2024, 4:54 pm
Woman stabbed to death in southern town of Rahat, allegedly by husband
Partner arrested, murder weapon seized as victim becomes 16th woman murdered this year, with most killed by their partners
By ToI Staff
Lamis al-Jaer, an Arab Israeli woman who was attacked after mistakenly driving into the illegal outpost of Givat Ronen in the West Bank on August 9 speaks to Channel 12, August 11, 2024. (Screen capture via N12, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 11, 2024, 10:46 pm
Arab Israeli attacked by West Bank mob rejects far-right MK’s claim her car wasn’t Israeli
Husband of victim calls on Otzma Yehudit MK to apologize for justifying attack at Givat Ronen settlement outpost; Democrats MK calls incident ‘attempting lynching’
By ToI Staff
Ship drawings discovered in the Rahat church excavation. (Yoli Schwartz/IAA)
May 23, 2024, 11:22 am
Pilgrims’ first stop: 1,500-year-old Byzantine-era ship etchings found at Negev church
Site, just south of the Bedouin city of Rahat, was likely the first inland stop for Christian pilgrims touring the Holy Land after arriving by sea at Gaza
By Gavriel Fiske
Kaid Abu Latif (far right) with his youngest brother, Ahmad Abu Latif and their mother, Mansoura Abu Latif, before Ahmad was killed in Gaza on January 22, 2024 during combat as a reservist (Courtesy)
February 8, 2024, 12:05 pm
Bedouin filmmaker mourns soldier brother killed in Gaza combat as movie premieres
Kaid Abu Latif’s youngest sibling Ahmad fell while serving in the IDF weeks prior to film festival in their hometown Rahat
By Jessica Steinberg
Hamza Ziyadne (Courtesy)
January 20, 2024, 7:48 pm
Taken captive: Hamza Ziyadne, Rahat resident working in Kibbutz Holit
Abducted on October 7 by Hamas terrorists; still in Gaza after two siblings released November 30
By ToI Staff
Bilal Ziyadne, who was held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza for 50 days, December 10, 2023. (Channel 13 screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 11, 2023, 10:24 am
Freed hostage Bilal Ziyadne: Hamas kidnapped us even though they knew we’re Arab
Bilal, freed with sister Aisha during truce, struggles to detail experiences; says family was kept together in Gaza, given ‘normal food,’ thought they were the only hostages
By ToI Staff
A view of the city of Rahat, in southern Israel, October 30, 2023 (Gianluca Pacchiani / Times of Israel)
November 29, 2023, 11:21 am
Man shot dead in Bedouin village, third murder in Arab community in past 24 hours
Police believe 221st killing in Arab community this year part of ongoing feud between crime families
By ToI Staff
A view of the city of Rahat, in southern Israel, October 30, 2023 (Gianluca Pacchiani / Times of Israel)
November 20, 2023, 8:28 pm
2 Gaza terrorists found in Rahat a month after October 7 assault
Shin Bet, Border Police troops captured Hamas terrorists two weeks ago from house in Bedouin city; no Israeli forces hurt in operation
By ToI Staff
Four cousins from Rahat, including Ismail Ismail Alqrinawi (second from right), recount how they rescued dozens from Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023. (screenshot courtesy Have You Seen the Horizon Lately)
November 5, 2023, 9:38 am
Four Bedouin drove from Rahat to evacuate their cousin in Be’eri; they rescued dozens
Seven-minute video from coexistence group Have You Seen the Horizon Lately tells the chilling story of how a kibbutznik cyclist was saved from Hamas by a cafeteria worker’s family
By ToI Staff
A staging area near the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, on November 1, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
November 2, 2023, 2:15 pm
Daily Briefing Nov 2: Day 27 – Why IDF should apply lessons learned from Ukraine war
Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman on ground operations in Gaza and Jordan’s recall of its ambassador; Arab affairs reporter Gianluca Pacchiani on a reporting trip to Rahat
By ToI Staff
Ali Ziyadne showing an image on his phone of his brother Youssef and his nephews Bilal and Hamza, kidnapped by Hamas and taken hostage in Gaza on October 7, Rahat, October 30, 2023. (Eli Katzoff / Times of Israel)
November 2, 2023, 12:57 am
In Rahat, a Bedouin community mourns its October 7 losses away from the public eye
21 Bedouins were killed and 6 were abducted; while families of some hostages have launched campaigns, Bedouins have no representative on world stage – and don’t seem to want one
By Gianluca Pacchiani
From left to right: Bashar Abu Zajilah, 18, shot dead in Rahat on September 24, 2023, and Edmund Dibi, in his 50s, shot dead in Haifa on September 23, 2023. (Courtesy)
September 24, 2023, 9:24 am
2 Arab men killed in separate shootings, taking year’s toll in community to 180
Man in his 50s gunned down in Haifa and 18-year-old shot dead in Rahat in latest homicides
By Michael Horovitz
A pistol retrieved from the scene where a man was suspected of shooting his wife dead and then attempting to take his own life, causing himself moderate injuries in Rahat, September 11, 2023. (Israel Police)
September 11, 2023, 8:03 pm
Rahat man suspected of killing wife, turning gun on self
Police arrest suspect, 35, with moderate injuries in predominantly Bedouin southern town of Rahat; lobby group says 21 women killed in homicides since beginning of year
By ToI Staff
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