President of Israel Isaac Herzog visited the Bedouin town of Rahat in the Negev, which is located near the border of Gaza, and met with heads of Bedouin authorities. He also met with the families of Bedouin who were kidnapped and murdered on October 7, as the Hamas terrorist group does not even spare Israeli Arabs.
Herzog said he went there to “embrace and offer strength to the Bedouin community that paid a heavy price in the massacre and kidnapping of civilians by Hamas.
“Women, men, children, as well as members of the community serving in the security forces were brutally taken in the war. We came to offer comfort to the bereaved families, and offer support to the families of the hostages,” he said.
“We sympathize from the bottom of our hearts with the mourning of the entire Arab public and the Bedouin society in particular,” the president added.
“Dear sons in the Bedouin society were murdered, innocent people were murdered, people for no wrongdoing, people who worked, who traveled, who were at home, were slaughtered just like the Jews who were slaughtered.”
