Abu Sabit, Kamal (Nabiya)
Son of Kamela and Ibrahim. He was born on September 9, 1978 in the village of Hura, in the Abu Sabit tribe. Brother to Hail, Ayman, Amina, Aql, Amin, Zaid, Abbas, Zana, Samah, Sulaiman, Rahma, Jaliliya, Jadan and Abdul Rahman. Kamel grew up and was educated in Kfar Hura. He attended elementary school in his village and continued his high school studies in the village of Ksayefa. He was a nice boy, a good student and a loyal son of his parents. In a family with many children and a rainbow, everyone contributes to supporting the family, each as much as he can. On December 4, 1996, he enlisted in compulsory military service and was stationed in the infantry unit of the 585th Battalion of the Bedouin Desert Patrol Battalion. Kamel was a model soldier. He successfully completed a course in symbols and was sent to an officers’ course. In 1998, Kamel married his 20-year-old Halima. The two lived in harsh conditions: in a hut next to Kamel’s parents’ family, in the Abu Rakeik tribe – a village that is not recognized by the state. On September 24, 1998, an officers’ course began. On December 12, 1998, two weeks before the end of the course, he rode off the road on the Omer-Be’er Sheva road and was crushed in the wadi. Kamel Abu Sabit, the uncle of Kamel who was with him in the car, was also killed when he was serving on December 12, 1998. He was buried in the Khirbet al-Sakati cemetery, which is used by Kfar Hura And the Bedouin diaspora, near the Shoket junction, was left behind by Raya Hera, parents and fourteen siblings, who was promoted to the rank of deputy general after his death, and the death of Kamel and his uncle Awad. His older brother Eyal was twenty-four and married, his brother trained a nineteen-year-old soldier in compulsory service, his sister Amina was seventeen and married, and eight of the brothers were schoolchildren: Kaddam’s son, Nabeel, was born seven months after his fall and was named after his father.
