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Qaid Farhan Alkadi is the Bedouin Arab taken captive by Hamas on October 7, and on August 27 rescued from his calvary in Gaza by the IDF after enduring 326 days in captivity. Many of the media stories about his rescue did not mention that he is an Israeli Arab, leaving one to guess his identity from his name, which not everyone is able to do. More on what he had to say after his rescue by Jewish soldiers can be found here: “Rescued Israeli hostage ‘spoke about the darkness, not being able to see,’” by Joshua Marks, JNS, August 28, 2024:
Qaid Farhan Alkadi, who was rescued from Gaza by Israeli forces on Tuesday after 326 days in Hamas captivity, was released from Beersheva’s Soroka Medical Center on Wednesday afternoon.
Meanwhile, relatives of the 52-year-old Muslim Israeli and father of 11 from the Bedouin city of Rahat in the Negev Desert have begun to share details regarding the brutal conditions he experienced since his abduction on Oct. 7.
“He spoke about the darkness, not being able to see. But, thank God, he’s back with us, alive—it made us all rejoice,” Alkadi’s cousin Fayez al-Sana told the New York Times after visiting him in the hospital.
For almost all of those 326 days, Alkadi lived in underground tunnels, in near-total darkness for eight of the ten months he was held. Conditions were brutal; food scarce; medical treatment either poor or nonexistent. One of his fellow captives died lying next to him.
Ata Abu Medigm, the former mayor of Rahat, told Ynet that Alkadi was held in near total darkness for months: “He told about a very brutal captivity, he hardly saw the sun for eight months. He would check if his eyes were functioning. He said that one of the abductees was with him for two months and died next to him.”
Dr. Mazen Abu Siam, a longtime friend and veterinarian, in a conversation with the Times called Hamas “devils” and said that Alkadi’s family had been in terrible anxiety for 10 months.
He had more harsh words for Hamas, listing the cases in which civilians were murdered on Oct. 7, including over 300 people at the Nova music festival: “They attacked everyone, even people dancing under the trees,” he said.
“I got permission to visit [Alkadi] inside [the hospital], I went in for two or three minutes. He’s fine, he’s healthy, he looks fine. A little pale. Thin compared to Oct. 7,” he said, according to Ynet. “Hope he will be released to the family tomorrow. He mentioned that he was in the tunnel for a long time, cut off from the outside world, was not connected to the Israeli media and did not know what was happening around him. I hope that all the families who have abductees in Gaza will feel what we felt on this day.”
Alkadi’s brother Juma’a told CNN that “he was dead and is now brought back to life,” and that “it was all tears. Tears of joy. What matters is that we saw him.”
Juma’a said that Alkadi was shot in the leg during the Hamas-led attack of Oct. 7, and the wound was poorly treated during captivity. Alkadi had been operated on without anesthesia, “As one does with animals.”…
He was shot because he refused to tell Hamas members where Jews were hiding in the kibbutz where Alkadi worked as a security guard.
Israel’s army rescued a Muslim Israeli from Hamas’ terror dungeons. Keep that rescue in mind when you hear Israel being accused of committing “genocide” of Palestinian Arabs. IDF soldiers risked their lives to save an Israeli Arab. He, his family of eleven children, and a vast number of relatives, are all immensely grateful to the IDF, full of hatred for Hamas, and hoping for the rescue of the others, Jews and a handful of Muslim Arabs, too — still being held by Hamas, whom Alkadi’s longtime friend, the veterinarian Mazen Abu Siam, describes as “devils.”
I am so glad he was rescued! Someone needs to tell that to Susan Sarandon, Mark Ruffalo, lousy flamenco singer Alfonso Cid and a host of others who spread Jew-hate.
This should be front page news. I wish one of the talk show hosts would talk with him. Let him tell his story about his experience.
Grateful he was rescued.
It wouldn’d make any difference. There have been countless reports about acts of kindness – or simple decency – from Israeiis toward Arabs (including the case of the Israeli physician treating a child whose mother repeatedly proclamed that if he would survive, she wished he would kill a great number of Jews). The islamo-leftist brainwashing has rendered most of the Hollywood set impervious to the simple truth.
Mr. Alkali should be honored as a hero, as well. He was shot because he would not reveal the hiding places of Jews. If he had, he also would probably never have been taken hostage.
Very sad story and a war crime by Hamas. Lack of sunlight is bad for one’s health. I have been investigating the claims of Rabbi Shmuley.In a debate with Candace Owens or maybe it was in another video he said the Arabs had rejected the 1947 Partition Plan by the UN.That is true by later I found out that on May 12,1949 Syria,Jordan,Lebanon,Egypt and Israel all signed the Lausanne Protocol. Signed it. The Arabs accepted peace,the partition,thus,a Jewish state.And Israel agreed
to the return of the 700,000 Arabs who had been made refugees. However,later Israel broke the agreement.I was so shocked that I looked up the existence of the Lausanne Protocol of 1949 and it exists. How this war will end is hard to say,both sides say they are winning.Somebody is wrong.
There will NEVER be a 2-state solution as long as one side promises to eradicate the other from the face of the earth.
After verifying the existence of the 1949 Lausanne Protocol signed by Israel,Jordan,Syria,Lebanon and Egypt I had to find out why Ben Gurion rejected it later.Apparently he never had the intention of having peace. The Lausanne Protocol signed by Israel accepted the UN 1947 Partition Plan. 55% for Israel and Jerusalem as an international city under the UN ( population then, 105,000 Arabs,100,000 Jews). In the 1947 plan Israel would get 400,000 Arabs ( 45% of the population of the new state).So Ben Gurion was not being forced to accept 700,000 refugees. In the 1947-1948 Civil War before the Arab countries intervened 100,000 Arabs had fled in the first month.They were the rich and the middle class of the cities. Later 150,000 poor Arabs fled and 150,000 remained.So Israel,by the protocol only had to accept 250,000 refugees.
Back to the beginning.Why did Ben Gurion break the treaty? In 1967 Israel offered to give up the West Bank and Gaza for peace.It was rejected. But you can’t say the same of the Arabs in 1949. It is written that Ben Gurion rejected even a majority of 60% for the new state.He wanted a minimum of 80%. Peace in 1949 would mean only a fraction of the 120,000 Jews of Irak,50,000 Jews of Yemen, 60,000 Jews of Egypt, 250,000 Jews of Morocco would even have left the Arab countries. In 1949 all the 1 million Jews in the Soviet Union were forbidden from leaving.Few Jews in the US,France,the UK wanted to emigrate.Israel would have become a truly binational state and ben Gurion preferred to reject peace.
“Alkadi had been operated on without anesthesia, “As one does with animals.”… Brother Juma’a doesn’t seem to know that In our civilized world, no veterinarian would operate on animals without anesthesia.