An Arab Muslim girl that Israel seeks to recover from Hamas as part of a prisoner deal.. Who is she?

09:40 PM

Thursday, November 23, 2023

Written by: Sarah Abu Shadi

A few hours before the beginning of the truce agreed upon between Israel and Hamas, which requires the release of a number of Israeli prisoners held by Hamas, in exchange for the release of a number of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, many Israeli media outlets published a list of about 48 children expected to be released. They are among the Israeli prisoners held by Hamas.

Among the list published by the Israeli newspapers is a girl called Aisha Al-Zayadna, the girl who lives in the village of Rahat, one of the Arab villages that is located in the far north of the Negev land, separating the Negev Desert from the rest of the country, and includes Bedouin Arab residents from various parts of the Negev Desert in addition to a minority of the Negev. Gazans, she was captured with her father, Youssef, and her brothers, Hamza and Bilal, on October 7.

Youssef Al-Zayadna, 53 years old, and his two sons Hamza and Bilal and his daughter Aisha are among about 239 Israelis who were captured on October 7 by the Al-Qassam Brigades and other factions. Aisha, her father and two brothers were present inside a livestock pen in which they were working in the settlements surrounding the Gaza Strip, during the attack on the 7th of October. October.

Youssef Al-Zayadna, Aisha’s father, has been working in a cowshed inside the Gaza Strip settlements for about 17 years, and several years ago his two sons, Hamza, 22, and Bilal, 18, joined him. On October 7, they were joined by 17-year-old Aisha, who is set to marry a clan member within a few months.

Not many media outlets knew about Aisha, until after the Israeli occupation put her on the first list of prisoners, especially since the Al-Zayyadna family did not put Aisha on the poster showing her captives held by Hamas, who are Aisha’s father and brother. According to Hebrew media, the family did not want to publish A picture of the daughter. They also did not allow anyone to talk to the women of the family, and this is a tradition of the Bedouin society in which they live.

Besides the four Zayadna, three other members of the Bedouin sect were captured on October 7. One of them is Samar Talalka, a 22-year-old from the Negev town of Hura who worked in a chicken hatchery in Nir Am, one of the settlements around the Gaza Strip.

At seven in the morning on Friday, a truce begins between the Israeli occupation and the Hamas movement for the purpose of a prisoner exchange between the two parties, and it will continue for about 4 days, according to which a ceasefire will be achieved by both parties, a halt to all military actions by the occupation army in all areas of the Gaza Strip, and a halt to the movement of its incursive military vehicles. In the Gaza Strip.

According to what Hamas announced, the agreement includes the entry of hundreds of trucks for humanitarian, relief, medical and fuel aid into all areas of the Gaza Strip, without exception in the north and south, and the release of 50 women and children detained by the occupation, under the age of 19, in exchange for the release of 150 women and children. Of the Palestinian people from the occupation prisons under the age of 19 years, all according to seniority.