TEL AVIV, Israel – On October 7th last year, Hamas took scores of hostages, including Israeli Jews, Israeli Arabs and foreign workers. Among them, members of one heroic family also suffered that tragic day.
Bashir Alzayadni, a Bedouin Arab and a law student, saw his life turned upside down by the events last fall.
“I’m the spokesman of my family here in Tel Aviv in the family’s headquarters, the families Forum of the Hostages,” he explained. “I had four family members kidnapped on the 7th of October and held as hostages as well.”
Bashir’s uncle, Yosef, and three of his children were working at the dairy in Kibbutzz Holit when Hamas attacked.
“At seven and a half in the morning, they were captured,” Bashir recalled. “We saw photos, videos of them being held by Hamas. Very hard images, very hard footage.”
Hamas released one son, Bilal, and a daughter Aisha after nearly two months because they were both under 18.
“They told us that they had almost no food. They told us that they have been staying deep down in the tunnels. They told us that although the guards of Hamas spoke Arabic and they speak also Arabic, they’ve never shared a word
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