Qaid Farhan Al-Qadi

Qaid Farhan Al-Qadi was born in 1971

Al-Qadi is an Israeli Bedouin from the Negev, near the city of Rahat. He has two wives and is a father of 11 children. He lives in Khirbet Karkur, a Bedouin village that the state does not recognize.

On October 7, 2023, he was working as a guard at a packing house in Kibbutz Magen when he was abducted to Gaza. He was one of 251 people taken from Israel that day, 6 of them Bedouin.

He was first held in an apartment, where he saw the death of hostage Aryeh Zalmanovich. Later he was held in a tunnel, mostly in darkness and with little food. His captors left him alone underground before he was found.

On August 27, 2024, soldiers searching tunnels in southern Gaza found him after 326 days in captivity. He was the eighth hostage rescued by Israeli forces and the first rescued from a tunnel. He was flown to Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba and went home the next day.

The Israel Land Authority said it would not serve a demolition notice on his home. In January 2025, he eulogized his neighbor and childhood friend Yousef al-Zayadna, whose body was recovered from Gaza.