Rahat, just north of Beersheba, is some 30 kilometers (around 18.5 miles) from the Gaza Strip. The statement gave no details on how the two terrorists reached Rahat, ...

In Rahat, a city of Palestinian Bedouin Israelis about 20 miles from the Gaza border, people know loss and fear on all sides of the conflict. Accessibility links Skip to main content ...

They lived in the Ziyadne neighborhood of Rahat, named for their large family. Two of Zaydani’s other children had also been kidnapped, but Hamas released them in November 2023 after about 50 ...

(Bloomberg) -- Israeli security forces have rescued a male hostage who was abducted by Hamas on Oct. 7 and taken to Gaza. Qaid Farhan Alkadi, a 52-year-old Israeli from the Bedouin town of Rahat ...

Hostage Farhan al-Qadi meets with the commander of the 162nd Division, Brig. Gen. Itzik Cohen, moments after being rescued from a tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip, August 27, 2024. (Israel ...

At first glance, Rahat looks like any one of a hundred small Israeli towns. At first glance, ... The town is less than 20 miles from the Gaza Strip.

Women walk past a poster of Yosef AlZaydani and his son Hamzah in Rahat, southern Israel, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. On Friday, the bodies of Yosef and Hamzah were both retrieved and identified by the ...

CWO G'haleb Sliman Alnasasra was killed in battle while fighting in the northern Gaza Strip, the IDF announced on Saturday.CWO Alnasasra, 35, from Rahat, served in the Northern Brigade in the Gaza ...

Even in Rahat, with a population of about 80,000, there were only about 10 bomb shelters, the city’s mayor, Ata Abu Mediam, told the Israeli news media. When Hamas fires rockets, the people have ...

With limited power and water services, the village is about 20 miles from the Gaza Strip and is not protected by Israel’s Iron Dome defense system. The closest city is Rahat, which is the ...

The Israeli military said it had found a 52-year-old Israeli Arab in a tunnel in southern Gaza. He is the eighth hostage to be rescued alive of the approximately 250 abducted 10 months ago.