Hamza Ziyadne

Hamza Ziyadne, 22, from Rahat, worked alongside his father Youssef as a dairy farmer at Kibbutz Holit. He was married and a father of two. On October 7, he was working at the kibbutz with his father and siblings Bilal and Aisha, part of a large Bedouin family whose life and livelihood were closely connected to their work in southern Israel.

Hamza Ziyadne, 23, of Rahat, was abducted from Kibbutz Holit by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, together with his father and two of his siblings. The four members of the Ziyadne family were working in the kibbutz. IDF and security forces located his body and that of his father, Youssef, in a tunnel in Rafah where they had apparently been held by the terrorists. The bodies were returned on 8 January 2025; Hamza was positively identified at the National Center of Forensic Medicine in Tel Aviv, and his family was notified of his death today (Friday, 10th January 2025). The two other members of the Ziyadne family who were abducted by the terrorists - Bilal Ziyadne, 18, and Aisha Ziyadne, 17 - were released on November 30, 2023, after more than 50 days in Hamas captivity.