Ahmed Abu Latif (26) from Mehrat, who served in the IDF in the Bedouin Patrol Battalion, was killed yesterday (Monday) in an accident in the Gaza Strip. His former instructor at the co-existence nest of the ‘Working and Learning Youth’, Hadas Ben Zvi, paid tribute to him: “With his big smile, and trust In a post dated October 25, Abu Latif wrote: “We all share the same fate, and we must be united.”
Abu Latif worked in the security department at Ben Gurion University, and served in the IDF in the Bedouin Patrol Battalion. He said that on October 9, while traveling to distribute food to soldiers in Beit Kama, he and his brother-in-law Kevin Yosef Alhuzeil received a message about the infiltration of terrorists in the Negev Guard area. The two joined the police and participated in searches for the terrorists.
The late Ahmed Abu Latif as a trainee at the “Coexistence” nest in Berhat (photo: The Working and Learning Youth)
“We helped with the search for the terrorists, feeling adrenaline and a crazy mission,” Abu Latif wrote about it on Facebook, it’s the least we could do and we had the right to take part in guarding the house.
About his life and work at the university, he wrote: “I am happy when I have the opportunity to connect with people in our society and connect cultures. I am happy that I can invite my friends to eat meat and makluba Berhat, and can be hosted in the yard by people from Kibbutz Shovel who play the guitar and sing songs by Yehudit Ravitz. I am happy when I can travel in Israel with my friends and I am most happy that they are learning Arabic, trying to talk to me in Arabic and asking me to help them.”
On October 25, he wrote: “Since the outbreak of the war, we hear a lot about the involvement of the Arab citizens. Unfortunately, among the fallen are Bedouin and Druze soldiers, Muslims and Christians, who fell heroes while defending the country, and there is nothing greater than that!”
“The Bedouin community mourns the civilian victims who were murdered for no injustice – Jews, Christians or Muslims. We all share the same fate, and we must be united. We must maintain this security and this evil!”
Abu Latif left behind a wife and a one-year-old baby.
Qaid Abu Latif, Ahmad’s brother: “We felt that something bad was going to happen. The whole political skirmish is irrelevant and it’s not the time. I will remember Ahmed as an ambitious guy, who had dreams and wanted to do good. This war hit the Bedouin society in the Negev very hard: with the kidnapped, the missing, the wounded. You share This fate must not be forgotten the day after.”
The ‘Working and Learning Youth’ movement: “We mourn and grieve over the fall of the IDF fighter Major General (retd.) Ahmed Abu Latif. Ahmed was a trainee and instructor at a communal living nest in Berhat. Among other things, Ahmed was an active trainee in the movement during Operation “Pillar of Clouds”, and participated in guiding the activities of the shelters And the respite for the children of Rahat. Our condolences to Ahmed’s family, to the city of Rahat, and to all the families who fell in the last day. May their memory be blessed!”
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