The Ziyadne family, a Bedouin Muslim Arab family who are citizens of Israel, greeted two teenagers who were released Thursday night by Palestinian Hamas terrorists just hours before Hamas terminated the truce that had allowed for hostages to be freed.
Bilal and Aisha Al-Ziyadne reunite with their family at Soroka Medical Center in Be’er Sheva, November 30, 2023 (Courtesy Government Press Office)
Bilal Al-Ziyadne reunites with his family at Soroka Medical Center in Be’er Sheva, November 30, 2023 (Courtesy Government Press Office)
As Breitbart News reported:
Two Muslim Arab teens are among eight Israeli hostages released by Hamas on Thursday night, part of a Bedouin family that was abducted by the Palestinian terror group in its October 7 attack, in which dozens of Muslim and Arab Israelis were also murdered.
The teens, Aisha Ziyadne, 17, and Bilal Ziyadne, 18, were released, but their father, Youssef Hamis, and their 22-year-old brother, Hamza, are still captives.
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Rumor has it that members of the Israeli Bedouin community wanted to invade Gaza themselves to avenge the murders and abductions by Hamas, but were prevented from doing so by the Israeli military.
Arabs form 20% of the Israeli population. They have equal civil rights, they vote, and they serve in the government.
Bilal and Aisha Al-Ziyadne reunite with their family at Soroka Medical Center in Be’er Sheva, November 30, 2023 (Courtesy Government Press Office)
Some also serve in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF); Bedouin Arabs often volunteer to serve in tracking units in the Negev desert.
The Ziyadne siblings were released on the seventh day of a week-long truce. Hamas often singled out Arab and Muslim Israelis for worse treatment than Jewish Israelis — who were themselves subjected to worse treatment than some foreign national hostages.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the new biography, Rhoda: ‘Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order’. He is also the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
