Shock Over Body Mix is ​​the last obstacle in the high fragile fire

Israel’s announcement that a body returned from Gaza on Thursday was not that of Shiri Bibas, as Hamas had said, throws another obstacle in this high fire agreement.

It was believed that Shiri’s remains, a mother of two children, had been delivered along with those of their children.

But the Israeli army said that forensic evidence could only confirm the bodies of Ariel and Kfir, who would have been five and two years old, and not those of their mother.

Instead, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Hamas had “put the body of a Gazan woman in a coffin”, with Ismail al-Thawabta, a spokesman for Hamas, suggesting that Shiri’s remains had mixed with other bodies under a broom after an Israeli air strike.

In a separate statement, the group said that he affirmed his “seriousness and total commitment to all our obligations” under the high fire, and that he had no “interest in breach.”

He also said that an investigation into confusion was underway, and requested the remains of the alleged Palestinian woman delivered by error to Israel to be returned.

The Bibas family was among the 251 people taken as hostages during Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023 against Israel, along with Shiri’s husband, Yarden, who was released earlier this month.

Israel launched a massive military campaign against Hamas in response, which has killed at least 48,297 Palestinians, mainly civil, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health.

Ariel and Kfir, the youngest of the Israeli hostages, had four and nine months when they were kidnapped. His mother was 32 years old.

Netanyahu has threatened that Hamas will pay the “full price” for not delivering Shiri’s body, qualifying it as “cruel and evil rape” from his agreement.

Measures beyond Netanyahu have not yet been announced saying that Israel will act “with determining to bring Shiri home.”

But an additional claim by Israel that Ariel and Kfir had been “killed by cold -blooded terrorists” will further inflame the feelings in Israel.

In November 2023, Hamas said the children and Shiri had been killed in an AFI air strike. The BBC has not been able to verify this independently.

On Friday, Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari said that forensic tests had revealed that Hamas killed Ariel and Kfir “with his naked hands.”

“Subsequently, they committed horrible acts to cover up these atrocities,” he said, without giving details about the alleged injuries. Hamas has not yet responded to these accusations.

For Israeli politicians inside and outside the Netanyahu government who have been demanding a resumption of the war in Gaza, these statements will be seen as more evidence that Hamas must be completely eradicated.

The high fire is entering a new period of uncertainty, with the first phase reaching an end, while negotiations in the next stage have not yet seriously begun.

The second phase, in which all the remaining, living or dead hostages must be released, has been seen from the beginning as potentially more challenging than the first.

Israel is demanding the complete disarmament of Hamas, while Hamas rejects the possibility that Israel continues to maintain strict security control over Gaza.

Any important breakdown in the agreement could see the return to the fight.

However, on the other hand, it is perhaps the majority of public opinion in Israel, that nothing should be brought on the path of all the remaining hostages that are returned.

When expressing his conviction for the last developments, the president of Israel, Isaac Herzog, made it clear that Israel must remember what he called his “greater duty: to do everything in our power to take all the sisters and siblings kidnapped to home”.

The hostage and missing families forum echoed this, saying that “every step” must be taken with “careful responsibility” to guarantee the safe return of all hostages.

On Thursday, the 84 -year -old, the 84 -year -old peace activist, Oded Lifschitz. Like Ariel and Kfir Bibas, the Israeli army said Oded’s remains had been confirmed by forensic evidence.