A poster features Shiri Bibas, Center, who was abducted Gaza with her husband and two young sons on October 7, 2023 in Jerusalem on Friday.
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Tel Aviv, Israel – The Israeli Army said on Friday that the body of a hostage is not the mother of two young boys a day earlier, whose bodies were also released by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas under a ceasefire deal.
The Israeli army said in a statement, “This is a violation of extremely seriousness by the Hamas terrorist organization.”
Somewhere else, three vacant buses exploded in a southern suburb of Tel Aviv in a suspected terrorist attack on Thursday night and the Israeli Prime Minister ordered the army to conduct an operation at the West Bank occupied. There was no casualties in the blasts and there was no claim of responsibility.
Hamas said that the bodies of four hostages returned to Israel on Thursday, 32 -year -old Shiri Bibas, his two sons Ariel and KFIR, respectively, at 4 years and 9 months old, when captured, and Oded Lifesthes, 83 . Neer Oz during the attack by Hamas, 7 October, 2023, Hamas.
Hamas claimed that all the hostages were killed in Israeli air strikes during the Gaza war. But the Israeli army stated that forensic testing proved that the hostages were killed by their “prisoners”, but did not specify how.
According to the Israeli army, the bodies of two children were positively identified by forensic scientists on Thursday. The army said that forensic testing also recognized the fourth body positively as a lifestyle.
However, the forensic test determined that “the additional body received is not of Shiri Bibas, and no match for any other hostage. It is an anonymous, unknown body,” said Israel’s army. “We demand that Hamas return home with all our hostages.”
The Israeli army said that it had informed Bibas, the father of Bibas’s children, Yordan Bibas, who was abducted by Hamas, but earlier this month was released as a part of a ceasefire deal which was on 19 January Started from
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Thursday, expressing condolences to the Bibas family. He said, “We will work perfectly to bring Shiri home along with all our hostages-both have alive and fallen.”
Hamas is expected to release six live Israeli prisoners on Saturday in exchange for more than 600 Palestinian prisoners and prisoners held in Israeli jails.
This is the eighth exchange under the first phase of the ceasefire, which is ready to end on 2 March. Gaza will still have 59 hostage, about half of them confirmed the dead, according to Israel. Talks about the next phase of the deal – which were about to begin weeks ago – not yet taken up.
A official familiar with the case, who did not have the authority to publicly speak and ask for oblivion, told the NPR that Israel is willing to move forward with the release of Saturday prisoner so that the expected release of the mortgage of Israeli hostage Avoid affecting The official said Israel would try to take advantage of the fact that Shiri Bibas’s body was not returned as a point of conversation to search for additional Israeli hostage releases.
Tel Aviv bus explosion
A series of explosions in three buses in the southern Tel Aviv suburb of Bat Yama inspired the authorities to stop all trains and buses across the country on Thursday night. According to the Israeli police, there was no injury.
Israeli officials said that the buses had abolished their routes and were parked in separate lots. The Israeli police said it found explosives in two other buses, which did not explode. They were similar bombs and were equipped with timer and bomb squads were able to define them.
An Israeli police officer said on February 20, 2025 as a militant attack at Bat Yama, Central Israel, said the officials said that the bus inspects a series of explosions.
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Immediately after the explosions, Netanyahu’s office ordered the army to intensify its infiltration into the West Bank, where the operation has increased in the last few weeks using airstrikes and raids.
Israel says it is an anti -terrorism operation with the aim of strengthening security in the West Bank. The Palestinian army has also clashed with these fighters. Thousands of Palestinians have been displaced from their homes due to these occasions.
According to Israeli officials, the latest Israel-Hamas struggle began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas and other groups of terrorists broke through the border with Israel and killed some 1,200 people and more than 250 people hostage Made In 15 months of the war, more than 48,000 Palestinians in Gaza were killed in an Israeli attacks according to Gaza health officials.
Daniel Astin of NPR contributed to this report.
