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The body of a woman who was supposed to have been one of the four hostages killed killed in cold blood by Hamas and delivered to Israel this week was allegedly delivered by the terrorist group on Friday.
Hamas delivered a coffin allegedly carrying Shiri Bibas to the Red Cross. The coffin will be delivered to Israeli troops and will then be transported to the National Forensic Institute for identification.
The development follows Israel’s demand back from Bibas’ body after discrepancies were found in a previous transfer on Thursday.
Shiri Bibas and their children, Kfir Bibas and Ariel Bibas. Of the four bodies they returned to Israel by Hamas on Thursday, two were identified as the two young children. Initially, a third was supposed to be his mother, but it was not, they said the Israel defense forces. (Courtesy, Hostage Families Forum)
Initially, it was believed that Bibas was one of the four hostages delivered to Israel on Thursday, after the confirmation of Hamas. However, Israel’s National Forensic Medicine Institute He could only verify the identities of his two children.
It was discovered that the body in a coffin with the name and photo of Shiri Bibas was an unidentified woman, and not the kidnapped mother of two, causing generalized indignation in Israel.
Effri Bibas Levy, whose brother Yarden, 34, was taken hostage with his wife Shiri, 32, and two children (Reuters/Denis Balibouse/File Photo)
The two children were identified as Ariel and Kfir Bibas, four and ten months old, who were killed by Hamas terrorists with their naked hands, said Israel. The fourth body was not identified, but it was believed to be Oded Lifshitz, a retired journalist and activist.
Israel’s defense forces said I was in contact with the Bibas family.
Terror Group responds after not being able to return the body of the hostages killed Shiri Bibas
“For months, we pray for Bibas babies to return home. Yesterday, our worst nightmare was confirmed,” said the FDI spokesman, Admiral Daniel Hagari, “Kfir and Ariel were killed in cold blood. The terrorists did not They shot them, killed them with their naked hands.
In response to the findings, the hostages and the missing families forum said it was “shaken to the core by the horrible findings.”
The Bibas family, from the left: Yarden, Ariel, Shiri and Kfir (From Bibas Levy)
“This barbarian act is another undeniable testimony of the unfathomable brutality of those who continue to keep our loved ones captive,” the group said in a statement. “The same hands that killed Ariel and Kfir are the ones that keep our parents, mothers, sons and daughters in unimaginable conditions.”
“Today is a tragic day,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday. “It is a day of unlimited sadness, of indescribable pain. Ariel Bibas, four years old, his brother Kfir, and Oded Lifshitz, 84, were brutally murdered by Hamas Savages.”
Kfir and Ariel Bibas, 4 and 10 months, were killed by Hamas terrorists with their naked hands, Israel said. (State of Israel / X)
Danny Danon, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, said Hamas “continues to violate each basic moral value”, even after the death of the two children.
“Instead of returning to Shiri, Kfir and Ariel’s mother, Hamas returned an unidentified body, as if it were a useless shipment. This is a new bass, unparalleled evil and cruelty,” he added.
The young people and their mother were kidnapped from their home by Hamas’ terrorists during the mortal of the terrorist group October 7, 2023 attack. Yarden Bibas, Ariel’s father and Kfir, tried to protect them and was kidnapped before the kidnapping of his wife and children, said the FDI.
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Yarden returned as part of the agreement for the return of hostages on February 1. Netanyahu said that Hamas will pay “the total price” for not continuing with Shiri Bibas’ body.
“God will save his blood, and we’ll also take revenge,” he said.
Yonat Fox News Fox contributed to this report.
