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The Guardian - UK
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Rory Carroll and Sufian Taha in Rahat

‘Between two flames’: the Bedouin family that came to embody tragedy and courage on Israel’s darkest day

Man wearing a suit puts his arm around a man wearing a black T-shirt as they face each other
Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, left, thanks minibus driver Yosef Zeadna for saving more than 30 people from the Supernova music festival on 7 October. Photograph: @Isaac_Herzog/X

When Hamas militants launched a murderous attack on southern Israel on 7 October, three branches of the Zeadna family experienced very different fates.

Abdul Zeadna, 29, was taking a weekend break from his factory job and camping on Zikim beach, two miles from Gaza. He was shot so many times that his corpse looked like it had been “smothered” in bullets, said a relative.

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