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Hamas released two hostages on Saturday in exchange for more than 600 Palestinian prisoners as part of the fragile High Fire Agreement with Israel.
The men were identified as such Shoham, 40, and Avera Mengistu, 39. The video images showed the two men who looked fragile and scared while they were taken to a stage in front of a crowd while they were flanked by masked armed men. They were delivered to the Red Cross and headed to the FDI forces.
Four additional hostages: Omer Wenkert, 23; Omer Shem Tov, 22; Hisham al-Sayed, 36; And Eliya Cohen, 27, was expected to also be published later on Saturday.
Two of the hostages, Mengistu and Al-Sayed, are civilians who have been held since they entered Gaza on their own more than a decade, long before the war caused by Hamas’ attack on October 7, 2023 against Israel , which caused military, which caused military. Retaliation of Israeli forces.
This occurs when the delicate agreement of Alto El Fuego reached a month ago remains in place despite the recent revelations that the body of the Shiri Bibas hostage was not initially returned to Israel, as promised Hamas.
A child holds a weapon while standing next to a Hamas fighter standing in position before delivering four bodies to the Red Cross in Khan Younis, Southern Gaza Strip, on Thursday, February 20, 2025. (AP)
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Hamas “would pay the full price” for allegedly delivering the body of a Palestinian woman from Gaza instead of the body of the Israeli hostage. The children of the hostage, Ariel and Kfir Bibas, along with Oded Lifshitz were returned by Hamas on Thursday as expected.
At the last minute of Friday, Hamas said he delivered Shiri Bibas’ body to the Red Cross, confirmed that he had received human remains Inside Gaza and transferred them to the Israeli authorities. Bibas’s family confirmed their identity on early Saturday.
Terror Group responds after not being able to return the body of the hostages killed Shiri Bibas
Red Cross vehicles arrive to collect coffins containing four bodies that were delivered by Hamas militants in Khan Young, Southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, February 20, 2025. (AP)
Hamas said that “he has no interest in retaining any body in his possession.” The terrorist group said that the dead hostages delivered on Thursday had been killed by a Israeli air attack In November 2023 and that the bodies could have been mistakenly identified due to bombings in the area.
A poster shows Shiri Bibas, who was kidnapped to Gaza with her husband and two young children on October 7, 2023 in Jerusalem, on Friday, February 21, 2025. (AP)
The terrorist group also killed Ariel and Kfir Bibas “with their naked hands,” according to the Israeli army, which did not offer evidence to support the claim.
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The rear admiral Daniel Hagari claimed that the forensic analysis of the bodies of the children of Bibas showed that Hamas “did not shoot the children”, but “killed them with their naked hands” and then “committed horrible acts to cover these atrocities” . Hagari said Lifshitz was killed by captors within Gaza.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
