Khatib, Hamad

The only son of Gaber and Semme. Hamad was born on February 10, 1957, in the village of Beit Jann. He studied in an elementary school in the village, and later in a high school in the village of Rama, where he finished 12th grade.Hamed Ballet was an outstanding student, and in November 1974 he enlisted in compulsory military service and was assigned to the Border Police. He completed his mandatory service, volunteered to continue his career, continued to serve as a combat soldier in Judea and Samaria, and was transferred to serve in the Border Police in November 1978. During his service in the company, As a person doing his duty to their satisfaction, stands out for his loyalty and devotion to his job. Hamad was the only child of his parents, who invested everything in him in order to succeed in his studies. He had a tremendous ambition to continue his studies, but because of his marriage at the age of eighteen he did not succeed. He invested all his energies in establishing a family, and by the age of twenty-six he was already the father of six children, whom he had nurtured and nurtured under the best conditions. Most of Hamad’s friends were villagers. The connection between them was the security service, involving many young people from the village. Hamad was popular with his friends, modest, compromising and always striving to solve problems and disputes by compromise and speed. He liked to read books, and from reading material he used to compose poems and articles, and to record events from his life. He loved everything related to the joy of life, like singing and dancing. The second sergeant fell in the second Tire disaster. During the Peace for Galilee War, while the IDF was operating against the PLO and Hizbullah organizations in Lebanon, the Border Police acted in collaboration with the Shin Bet to liquidate the nests of terrorists in the city of Tire. The fighters were housed in a facility that had two two-story buildings. On Friday, November 4, 1983, at 6:00 am, a pickup truck drove from the Rosh Hanikra-Zur highway to the facility, which was surrounded by a dirt embankment and a perimeter fence and was secured with constant protection. The pickup truck drove the gunner’s suspicion and opened fire. Another guard who noticed the incident also opened fire at the suspect. Despite the fire, the truck broke through the entrance gate to the facility and entered between the two buildings. The suicide bomber detonated the 500 kilograms of explosives in the car and caused the buildings to collapse. Sixty people were killed, including twenty-eight members of the security establishment. Hamad was twenty-six years old when he fell. He was buried in a family plot in the village of Beit Jann. He left behind a wife and six children: Thayer, Sheerin, Majda, Jaber, Bulal and Itad, who was a month and a half old on the day his father fell. In the eulogies delivered by Hamad’s commanders, it was said: “It will be a long time before we get accustomed to a cruel fact that does not give rest, that the place of our dear loved one is absent from us and we will not see him in the company’s uniform. To fulfill every command characterized his way in the Border Police “