Hamas claimed that it released the bodies of four hostages on Thursday, including a mother and her two sons.
AdvertisementOn Thursday, one of the four bodies released by the terrorist group Hamas was not a mother Shiri Bibas, the Israeli army said, it has been called “violation of extremely severity”.
Hamas claimed that it handed over the bodies of four hostages, including the Bibas family: Shiri and her two sons, aerial and kefir.
In the night’s announcement, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) stated that Ariel and KFIR were identified, but the third body was not of Shiri or any other hostage.
“This is an anonymous, unknown body,” IDF said, it was informed to the family, including Shiri’s husband Yordan Bibas, who was part of the ten ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas earlier this month. Was released in
Hamas has claimed that Bibas and his children were killed by an Israeli airstrike in the early days of the war, although Israeli said the test confirmed that the hostages were killed by the terrorist group.
Since the attack of Hamas on 7 October 2023, concerns for the safety of the Bibas family continued to grow when they were all abducted in southern Israel with Kibutz Neer Oz.
Kefir, who was 9 months old, when taken, was the youngest of all the hostages.
Israeli media said the fourth hostage body was confirmed as 85 -year -old Oded Lifesthes, a journalist and a Palestinian rights activist.
Speaking to CNN, American envoy for Hostez Adam Boheller said not to return Shiri’s body was a “clear violation” of ceasefire, which caught in January.
“If I was that, I would leave everyone or they were going to face total destruction,” the Bohaler said in a warning to Hamas.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday announced that a rift against the “terrorist hub” at West Bank was ordered when the blasts collided with three standing buses with the bat.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blasts, which was a suspected terrorist attack.
Hamas was scheduled to release six more hostages on Saturday, in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners organized by Israeli forces. It is no longer clear whether there will be a scheduled swap or not.
It is also not clear that the Trus, which prevents the 15 -month battle, will be extended after the end of its first phase in early March.
The conversation for the second phase, which is expected to start in the coming days, the return of about 60 remaining hostages in the Gaza Strip and the full return of Israeli soldiers.
Additional source • AP
