Hamas returns the bodies of 4 Israeli hostage, obviously, including mother and her two young children

Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – Hamas posted the bodies of four Israeli hostages on Thursday, said they include a mother and her two young children who have long been afraid dead and have come to embody the agony of the nation after 7. October 2023. Hamas attack on Israel.

It was said that the remains were posthumous Shiri Bibas and her two childrenAriel and Kfir, as well as Oded Lifshitz, who was 83 years old when he abducted. Kfir, who was 9 months old when they took him, was the youngest prisoner. Hamas said all four were killed with their guards at Israeli air attacks.

The militants showed four black coffins on stage surrounded by banners, including Velika depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a vampire, while the Red Cross vehicles arrived at the scene in the Gaza bar. The fighters then wore coffins across the Red Cross vehicle, where they were covered with white leaves with red vests before putting them inside.

The Red Cross Convac headed back to Israel, where the authorities would form a formal identification of the remains used by the DNA, which is expected to last up to two days. Only then will families get a final notice.

Thousands of people, including a large number of masked and armed fighters from Hamas and other fractions, gathered at the place of handover on the outskirts of the southern city of Gaza Khan Younis.

Israeli channels did not broadcast handover. In Tel Aviv Square, where the Israelis gathered to watch the Living Tatec edition, a large screen showed a compilation of the photos and videos of Lifshitz and the Bibas family, including Chunging Baby Kfir and a family dressed in Batman costumes.

Dozens of Kibbutz Nir Oz inhabitants, where four were abducted, gathered to wave Israeli flags outside their temporary home for an hour north of Kibutz.

Israelites have celebrated the return of 24 live hostages in recent weeks A powerful ceremony He paused during the 15 months of war. However, the handover will provide a gloomy reminder of those who killed captivity on Thursday, while the conversations that led to the receipt that withdrawn for more than a year.

This could also provide an incentive for negotiations on the second phase of a tribute that can barely start. The first phase should end in early March.

Kfir Bibas was only 9 months old, a red -haired child with a toothless smile, when militants were falling into the family home on October 7, 2023 .. while the militants led them to Gaza.

Her husband Yarden Bibas was taken separately and was released this month after 16 months in captivity.

The cousins ​​in Israel were hoped, celebrating Kfir’s first and second birthday and brother Peti. The Bibas family on Wednesday stated that she would wait for “identification procedures” before admitting that their loved ones were dead.

The supporters throughout Israel wore an orange solidarity with family – a reference to the red hair of two boys – a popular children’s song was written in their honor.

Like the Bibas family, Odeed Lifshitz was abducted by Kibbutz Nir Oz, along with his wife Yocheved, who was released during the weekly truck in November 2023. Oded was a journalist who advocated the recognition of Palestinian rights and peace between the Arabs and Jews.

The Hamas militants abducted 251 hostages, including about 30 children, in an attack on October 7, in which they also killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians.

More than half of the hostages, and most women and children were released in interruption agreements or other contracts. Israeli forces saved eight and recovered dozens of people killed in an initial attack or who died in captivity.

On Saturday, Hamas will release six living hostages in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, and says he will release four more bodies next week, ending the first phase of the tribute. This will leave militants with about 60 hostages, and all men, who are believed to be dead.

Hamas said he would not let the remaining prisoners without a permanent truce and full of Israeli withdrawal. Netanyahu, with the complete support of Trump’s administration, says he is dedicated to destroying Hamas’ military and managing capacity and returning all hostages, goals that are widely considered to be exclusive.

Trump’s proposal to remove about two million Palestinians from Gaza so that he can now own it and renew it, which Netanyahu greeted, but universally rejected by Palestinians and Arab countries, he threw an income on further doubt.

Hamas could hesitate to release more hostages if he believes the war will continue to destroy the group or forcibly transmit the population of gauze.

The Israeli military offensive has killed over 48,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, who does not distinguish civilians and fighters in its records. Israel says he killed over 17,000 fighters without giving evidence.

The offensive destroyed the huge areas of Gaza, reducing the entire neighborhood in the fields of ruins and bombed buildings. In its height, the war fought 90% of the Gaza population. Many have returned to their homes to find anything left and no way of renewing.