In memory of

Osama Abu Assa

Killed at Re'im on October 7, 2023, aged 36.

Israel

Their life

Bedouin family offers $1M reward to find killers. Murdered by Hamas terrorists near Re'im on October 7.

Their story

Osama Abu Assa, 36, from the Bedouin town of Tel Sheva, was murdered by Hamas terrorists on October 7.

He is survived by his wife and two children.

Horrific dashcam footage from that day shows the terrorists grabbing Abu Assa, abusing him, yelling at him and demanding they direct him to communities where they could murder more civilians.

Some of the footage shows him being abused and threatened outside a bomb shelter on the side of the road around 8 a.m. Survivors cited by The New York Times said that Abu Assa “pleaded with the gunmen not to enter the building” and murder those hiding inside.

His cousin, Musalah Abu Assa, told the Kan public broadcaster that he was returning home from a night shift near Kibbutz Re’im when the assault began. “For three days we thought he was alive.”

Musalah said the terrorists abused him, forced him to take his clothes off, beat him and then murdered him. The footage they watched came from the dashboard camera of Abu Assa’s own car, which they tracked down days later.

“This is a man who had no weapon, a Muslim man, he spoke to them in Arabic, but they didn’t care. They came to kill people.”

His family has vowed to get even with the terrorists who attacked and killed him and has offered $1 million to anyone who gives them information.

Musalah said Osama’s family will carry his death with them for the rest of their lives.

“He was a religious and faithful man,” Musalah told Walla. “A man who everyone loved and loved to help everyone.”

“He was a sweetheart of a guy,” his cousin told Channel 13 news. “If he would see a cat on the road, he would stop and he’d create a traffic jam just to save a cat. A special guy.”

October 7, 2023

October 7, 2023

It began at twenty past six in the morning with rocket fire and a coordinated crossing of the perimeter at some thirty points.

At the Nova music festival near Re'im, three hundred and sixty-four people were killed. Most were in their twenties. They had been dancing since before dawn and had nowhere to go across open ground.

In the kibbutzim and villages along the fence - Be'eri, Kfar Aza, Nir Oz, Nahal Oz, Holit and others - families were killed in their houses and their shelters. Be'eri lost about a tenth of its people.

About twelve hundred were killed in all, the large majority of them civilians, and two hundred and fifty-one people were taken into Gaza.

Among the dead were the volunteers and off-duty people who drove toward it without orders. Rachel Edri of Ofakim kept the men who held her and her husband talking for twenty hours, feeding them biscuits and coffee, until a rescue reached the house.

It was the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust, and Israel stopped.

Everyone taken by October 7, 2023 →

The ground

Re'im

October 7, 2023 · 30 named here

  • Osama Abu Assa
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  • 18 others who died here, spot not known
  • The other grounds that morning
Osama Abu Assa

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