Hamas on Thursday released the bodies of four Israeli hostages, who were scattered with red paint on a platform against the backdrop of promotional slogans and red paint behind white missiles, which “by USA bombs were killed.”
The Gaza Strip was likely to be one of the defined images of the war, four sites of Bibas family members and 84 -year -old Oded Lifashitz sitting on a raised stage in front of a smiling painting.
The bodies assigned by Hamas are believed to have KFIR and aerial Bibas, the two youngest detainees seized the attack, which triggered the Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip.
The bodies of two children were later confirmed as KFIR and Ariel Bibas – but it was believed that the body was considered as his mother, Shiri, he was not really not, he said the Israel defense forces.
“This is a very serious violation by the Hamas terrorist organization, which requires an agreement to return four dead kidnappers,” the IDF said. “We demand that Hamas return home with all our kidnappers.”
The bodies assigned were returned under the current ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. Lifashitz’s family said on Thursday that his body was identified.
Each casket also took a small picture of one of the four hostages.
The platform of hostage and missing families, which represents the families of those in Hamas captivity, earlier stated that Shiri Bibas’s body was handed over to the bodies and lifestyle of his two children.
The IDF stated that Ariel and KFIR Bibas “was brutally murdered by militants in November 2023,” was taken from his family, Neer Oz, by the family. Kefir was shy at the age of just nine months and was 4 at the time of aerial abduction.
The IDF stated that the identity process determined that the other bodies were not Shiri Biba, and “no match for any other kidnapper. It is an anonymous body without identity.
The handover took place in the southern Gaza city Khan Younis, where a large crowd gathered and the uniforms of armed Hamas were patrolled by uniform in black and camouflage uniforms. Caskets were displayed in front of a large banner, shown to a caricature copying the antisemtic trops of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in which vampire teeth and blood were moving on his face.
Netanyahu on Thursday reacted to the release of the deceased hostages in a post on X, stating that “we bow our heads to the heavy loss of our four hostages”.
“We are all in pain, a pain that is mixed with anger,” he said, he said that he planned to return the remaining hostages, “destroy the killers and finish Hamas.”
Representatives of Hamas and Red Cross signed paperwork on a table with a camouflage and two Palestinian flags, the casckets were taken into white red cross vehicles, then to transfer them to the Israeli Defense Bals and Israel Security Agency Went away for it.
The father of the 35 -year -old children, Yordan Bibas, was released on 1 February under the first phase of the ceasefire deal. He was held in a separate part of Gaza with his wife and children, according to the hostages who were in captivity and were freed since then.
While all other children were released in exchange for Palestinian prisoners during a week’s ceasefire in November 2023, the Bibas family never emerged from Gaza.
On one of the last days of brief stagnation in the fight, Hamas issued a statement claiming that Shiri Bibas and children were killed in an Israeli air strike, although the Israeli army said that later for the family The claim cannot be confirmed before accepting the fear. ,
Hamas leader, Khalil al-Haya, in Gaza, announced on Tuesday that the bodies of Shiri Bibas and the two children would return this week.
He also announced that four of the remaining captives would be released on Saturday, besides two others who have been held in the Gaza Strip for nearly a decade.
The Israeli Prime Minister’s office confirmed that it had reached an agreement on release during talks held in Cairo last week, but avoided naming any hostages.
Israel had long wrapped the fate of Kfir and Ariel Bibas to learn. In late 2023, Hamas said that Shiri Bibas and children were killed by Israeli bombing.
On Tuesday, the Bibas family said it was “in the upheaval” on the announcement of the Hamas leader’s Shiri Bibas and the return of the children.
The family said in a statement, “Our journey is not over until we get a definite confirmation.”
The Hostage and Missing Familys Forum also named Six Living Hoses for release on Saturday: Elia Cohen, Omar Shem Tove, Omar Venkart, Tail Shoham, Hishham al-Sed and urgistu.
“When we feel deep relief on their return home, we were destroyed by the news that the remains of our four loved ones will be returned this Thursday.”
Cohen, 27, Shem Tov, 22, and 23 -year -old Venkart were abducted from the Nova Music Festival, where the estimated 364 people were killed. According to the group, 40 -year -old Shoham was taken from the Kibutz Biri community.
Citizens Al-Sed and Mengistu have been held separately in Gaza for almost a decade after being kidnapped while crossing the border respectively in 2015 and 2014.
According to Israeli officials, around 1,200 people were killed and 251 were captured in the October 251 terror attack. According to the local Hamas-Interested Health Ministry, more than 48,000 Palestinians have been killed by the upcoming military aggressive Israeli military invasions in Gaza, and most of its population has been forcibly displaced.
Saturday’s handover, if successful, it would mean that four hostages, all are killed, still left from a group of 33 in Gaza, which is determined for release under the first phase of the ceasefire. Has been done
The interaction in the second phase of the ceasefire deal, originally slapped to start on 4 February, will serve to secure the release of the remaining 64 hostages and to oversee the post -war administration. Negotiations are going on in the coming days.
