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☆ Families of Bedouin Hostages Wait for News as Gaza Fighting Resumes
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-02 | by ( Dec. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +2 min

TIRABIN AL SANA, Israel (Reuters) - The family members of four Bedouin Arabs taken hostage on Oct. 7 during the assault on southern Israel by Hamas gunmen have welcomed the return of two of the captives but wait for news of the others as fighting resumes in the Gaza Strip. "We want the release of Yousef and Hamza and all those held hostages, and Samer and Farhan, may God bring them back to their families". Bedouin Arabs make up about 4% of Israel's population, living mainly in the southern Negev desert and in northern Israel. Kamel said the families were urging Hamas to release their hostages. While they wait, like the families of other hostages released during the week-long pause, their emotions are mixed.

Persons: TIRABIN, Yosef Hamis Ziadna, Hamza, Bilal, Aisha, Yosef, Farhan al, Qadi, Samer, Kamel al, Yousef, Farhan, Kamel, Belal, Sishi Siyabonga, Nuha Sharaf, James Mackenzie, Kevin Liffey Organizations: Hamas Locations: SANA, Israel, Gaza

☆ Families of Bedouin hostages wait for news as Gaza fighting resumes
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

"We want the release of Yousef and Hamza and all those held hostages, and Samer and Farhan, may God bring them back to their families". Bedouin Arabs make up about 4% of Israel's population, living mainly in the southern Negev desert and in northern Israel. Kamel said the families were urging Hamas to release their hostages. While they wait, like the families of other hostages released during the week-long pause, their emotions are mixed. Reporting by Sishi Siyabonga, Nuha Sharaf; writing by James Mackenzie; Editing by Kevin LiffeyOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Yosef Hamis Ziadna, Hamza, Bilal, Aisha, Yosef, Farhan al, Qadi, Samer, Kamel al, Yousef, Farhan, Kamel, Belal, Sishi Siyabonga, Nuha Sharaf, James Mackenzie, Kevin Liffey Organizations: Palestinian, Hamas, Thomson Locations: Israel, Palestinian, Tel Aviv, SANA, Gaza

Media affiliated to Hamas said explosions and gunfire could be head in the northern part of the Gaza Strip ahead of the truce deadline. Reuters could not immediately confirm the report and there was no immediate comment from Israel or Hamas. Mark Regev, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said Israel was open to continuing the ceasefire if Hamas committed to further hostage releases. Israel had previously set the release of 10 hostages a day as the minimum it would accept to pause its assault. [1/5]A helicopter carrying hostages released amid a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel arrives at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv district, Israel, December 1, 2023.

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Mr. Ziadna, 26, was slain inside his tent, and four members of his Bedouin family vanished. At least 17 people killed in the Hamas attacks were Bedouins in and around Rahat, the biggest city in an impoverished, predominantly Bedouin area of southern Israel. Hamas did not directly target Bedouins, but “rockets and bullets don’t discriminate,” Dr. Fraiha said. People are scared.”Even before the recent attacks, Bedouins had long suffered at the hands of Hamas. The largely aluminum roofs of the Bedouin homes turn into deadly shrapnel, which she called “knives.” Hamas rockets killed several members of one Bedouin community.

Persons: Alrahman Aatef Ziadna, Ziadna, Ayesha Ziadna, Yasmeen Abu Fraiha, Fraiha, ” Ms, Ata Abu Mediam Locations: Zikkim, Gaza, Rahat, Israel, Arab, Tel Sheva, Beer Sheva

☆ Bedouin Family Hopes Four Relatives Held in Gaza Will Return 'In Peace'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Oct. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +2 min

"He's diabetic," Ziadna told Reuters in a phone interview after a meeting with the Israeli president in Jerusalem. Ali's 53-year-old brother Yosef Hamis Ziadna, his sons Hamza and Belal and his daughter Aisha were working on the Holit farm on Israel's border with Gaza. "We are speaking of citizens of Israel and it doesn't matter if they are Bedouins or Jews - it's a citizen like any other," Rhall told Reuters. "They went to milk the cows and then what happened happened and they were kidnapped," Ziadna said of his family. I'm a regular citizen whose brother went to work, my brother only knows how to farm, he and his children went to work," Ziadna said.

Persons: Emily Rose JERUSALEM, Ali Ziadna, Ziadna, Yosef Hamis Ziadna, Hamza, Belal, Aisha, Rhall, I'm, Emily Rose, Giles Elgood Organizations: Reuters, Regional Locations: Rahat, Gaza, Jerusalem, Arab, Israel, it's

☆ With balloons and contact cards, first Israel-Qatar flight heads to World Cup
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Amir Cohen | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/4] Football fans queue before boarding the first direct commercial flight between Israel and Qatar for the upcoming 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar, at Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, Israel November 20, 2022. "There were a few concerns, I cannot deny that," said Sagi Ashkevitz, who was flying out with three friends to his second World Cup. Those boarding the TUS Airways plane at Ben Gurion Airport had originally been told they would have a brief stopover in Cyprus. Six more Tel Aviv-Doha flights for the World Cup have been approved so far, Mizrahi said. Riad Ziadna, a member of Israel's Arab minority who held a soccer ball as he stood in the check-in line, said he believed the World Cup would be "the starter's pistol for coexistence all over the Middle East".

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