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The family of an Israeli hostage released over the weekend has made an information supplication about the fate of his wife and children.
Yarden Bibas, 34, was Released on Saturday Together with two other hostages that Hamas have in exchange for 183 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, as part of the Gaza Fuego Alto Agreement.
His wife Shiri and his two young children, Ariel and Kfir, were also kidnapped by Hamas during the October 7, 2023 attack.
Hamas said in November 2023 that they had been killed in an Israeli air strike, without providing evidence. The Israeli army has not confirmed the report.
Shiri’s sister, Dana Silberman-Sitton, told journalists at Sheba hospital in the center of Israel that the family “would no longer accept uncertainty.”
“We demand answers. We demand them,” he added, as he accused the state of “not protecting” his family.
Shiri, 33 years old, Kfir and Ariel, of five, were appointed along with Yarden in the list of 33 Israeli hostages that will be released in exchange for Palestinian prisoners during the first phase of the high -fire agreement, which will last six weeks .
However, last month, the main Israeli army spokesman said he was “extremely concerned” about his well -being.
Kfir was only nine months when he was kidnapped, the youngest of the 251 hostages taken by Hamas.
“The State has been failing for almost 16 months to take them home,” said Silberman-Sitton.
“It is the responsibility of the Government and the State to Shiri, Ariel and Kfir, to Yarden, to me already our whole family, and all the citizens of Israel,” he added.
Effri Bibas Levy, Yarden’s sister, added: “My brother returned, but my sister -in -law and my nephew have not done so. Yarden asks for them and I have no answers to him.”
Gal Hirsch, the government’s hostage coordinator, said on Saturday that “we have been looking for them for a long time” and demanding “information about their condition of the mediators.”
An Israeli government spokesman said on January 27 that eight of the remaining 26 hostages that will be launched during the first phase of the high fire agreement were dead, citing a list received from Hamas that coincided with Israeli intelligence.
He said that their families had been informed but did not name them.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog described Mr. Bibas’ return as “simply heartbreaking”, saying that his country remained “deeply concerned” about his destiny.
The Israeli, the American Keith Siegel and the French-Israelí Kalderón were the other two hostages in the hands of Hamas who were released on Saturday.
Until now, the 13 Israeli hostages launched since the beginning of the high fire have been alive. Hamas has also released five Thai hostages, but not as part of the agreement with Israel.
Hamas took about 251 hostages when he attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people.
Israel responded with a 15 -month military offensive that killed 47,460 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, and devastated the coastal enclave.