Alkadi, the hostage who escaped alone from Hamas through a tunnel in Gaza after more than 300 days of captivity

Father of 11 children and two wives, Alkadi was taken hostage while he was working as a security guard in a packaging factory in Kibbutz Magen in southern Israel, one of several communities around the Gaza Strip that were attacked by Hamas on 7-O.

Alkadi was transferred by helicopter to the Soroka Medical Center, Israel’s largest hospital, while the IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi has authorized the continuation of the ongoing operation in order to find out if there are more hostages in the area.

On social media, Qaid Farhan Alkadi’s brother has posted several videos where he shows his joy After being informed of the rescue, she rushed to the hospital to meet him again. She later uploaded a selfie with him in the hospital bed.

“May all the hostages return and may all their families experience this feeling,” said the brother of the freed man in an emotional statement to Haretz after seeing him alive again.

The release of this hostage was made possible thanks to a “complex operation” The Israeli army is being held in collaboration with the Israeli domestic intelligence agency, the Shin Bet. “We are doing everything possible to save all the hostages,” the chief of staff said in a statement, although he is currently refusing to provide further details of the release for reasons of the safety of the other hostages and Israeli troops.

After his rescue, Alkadi, in addition to meeting with relatives, held a conversation with the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuwho has promised that the Army will continue to act to bring back the rest of the people that the terrorist group is holding hostage in the Palestinian enclave.

“We are working tirelessly to bring back all the kidnapped people. We do it in two ways: through negotiations and through liberation operations.“Both ways require our military presence on the ground and relentless pressure on Hamas,” he said. “We will continue to do so until we bring them all home.”

Alkadi has become the First kidnapped person to be rescued from a tunnelsince the other previous successful operations took place on the surface.

The last living hostages, Four of them returned home on June 8 after one of the largest incursions by the Israeli army in Gaza since the start of the war. Last week another six returned, in coffins.after their bodies were recovered in a tunnel 10 metres deep in the Strip. They had all been executed with a shot to the head.

Of the 251 people kidnapped in the wave of attacks on October 7, 108 still remain in Hamas hands34 of whom have been confirmed dead.

The Bedouin community

Alkadi was one of the six members of the Bedouin minority in Israelsemi-nomadic Muslim Arabs, who were taken hostage on the darkest day in Israel’s history. Others were not so lucky. A total of 19 Bedouins were killed in the fateful attacks. that day to the communities near the border with Gaza.

Among the Bedouins who lost their lives, twelve were killed by the militants and seven others, including six children, died when rockets hit their homes.Al Bat and Arara communitiesin the desert of southern Israel.

Al Bat, like 36 other Bedouin communities not recognized by Israel, home to some 80,000 people, does not exist on the official map and therefore does not enjoy the protection of the anti-aircraft defense system, the so-called Iron Domewhich does protect the rest of the country’s populations.

Israel seeks that the More than 300,000 Bedouins living in its territory For hundreds of years, long before the establishment of the state in 1948, Bedouins have been giving up their agricultural lifestyle to live in the small, impoverished urban areas that it has granted them. Some 192,000 Bedouins have already done so.