The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said that the mother of two young boys was murdered by Hamas militants, while in captivity returned to Israel on Thursday.
Prior to the return of the remaining four -killed hostages, Hamas said that the bodies would include Shiri Bibas and his two toddlers, aerial and KFIR, at the age of 4 and 10 months, as well as a retired journalist and activists. However, Israel’s National Institute of Forensic Medicine can determine the identity of only two bodies, young boys.
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LR: Shiri Bibas, KFIR Bibas, Arel Bibas, and Oded Lifshitz. (Hostage family platform through AP)
The IDF said, “During the identity process, it was determined that the additional body received is not of Shiri Bibas, and no match for any other hostage.” “This is an anonymous, unknown body.”
“According to an assessment by professional officials, based on the intelligence and forensic findings available to us from the identity process, Ariel and KFIR Bibas was brutally murdered by terrorists in November 2023,” officials said. .
The family has gripped Israel since the war started in Gaza.
The IDF said, “We express our heartfelt condolences to the Bibas family during this incredibly difficult time and are committed to make every effort to ensure Shiri and brought all the hostages home as soon as possible. goes.”
This called Hamas a “violation of extremely severity” by Hamas, while the terrorist group was demanded to return Shiri Bibas’s body and all other hostages were taken captive.
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Shiri Bibas and his children, Shiri Bibas, Kefir Bibas, Ariel Bibas. On Thursday, two of the four bodies returning to Israel by Hamas were identified as two young children. One third was initially considered to be his mother, but did not, the Israeli defense forces said. (Courtesy, hostage family platform)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday issued a statement to Hamas addressing Hamas addressing the “cruel and bad violation of the agreement”.
“The cruelty of the demons of Hamas does not know any limit. Not only did he kidnap Father Yardan Bibas, young mother Shiri and his two young children. In an indescribable manner, they did not return to the shird in favor of their young children, Little Angels, and he put the body of a ghazan woman in the coffin, “Netanyahu said, in the part.
Netanyahu said that Israel will act “completely” to bring Shiri home, as well as all the hostages – living and dead – still in Gaza, saying that Hamas follows the body of the young mother with returning the body of the mother Will not pay the “full price” to not.
He concluded his statement by saying that “God would save his blood, and we will also take revenge.”
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Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon said that even after the death of Hamas boys, “violates every basic moral value”.
“Instead of returning to Shiri, Shiri, Kafir and Ariel’s mother Shiri, Hamas returned an unknown body, as it was a useless shipment,” he wrote on X. “It is a new low, an evil and cruelty in which there is no parallel.”
He further stated that UN Secretary -General Antonio Gutres, United Nations Security Council and Mahasabha remain silent in front of the “barbarity” of Hamas and demanded Hamas to return the body of Shiri Bibas.
“History would remember who stood well and kept quiet, while Hamas trampled the most basic principles of humanity,” Danon wrote.
Hamas’s terrorist takes pictures as fellow masked Palestinian fighters on Thursday carry one of the coffins during the hands of the bodies of four Israeli hostages at the Red Cross in Khan Unis in Southern Gaza. Hamas included the bodies of four Israeli hostages in the coffins assigned on 20 February, including the Bibas family, who had become a symbol of the erstwhile anterior to Israel since the Gaza war began. Bodies are transferred by Hamas for the first time after the launch of the war on Israel since October 7, 2023, and is under a delicate ceasefire, which exchanged the living hostages for the Palestinians held in Israeli jails Have seen (IAD Baba/AFP via Getty Image)
The young boys and their mother were abducted by Hamas militants during the Terror Group’s deadly October 7, 2023 attack. The IDF said Yordan Bibas, Ariel and KFIR’s father tried to protect him and was abducted before kidnapping his wife and children.
Yordon returned as part of the agreement on 1 February for the return of hostages.
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Thursday’s release is associated with the transfer of already killed hostages Ceasefire deal Last month came into force.
There are about 70 hostages in Hamas’s custody. Almost all the remaining hostages, including Israeli soldiers, are men and about half are considered dead.
