The body of a woman assumed that Hamas was one of four hits killed killed in cold blood, and handed over Israel this week, the terrorist group allegedly overturned on Friday.
Hamas handed over a coffin that was allegedly carried by Shiri Bibasa’s remains on the Red Cross. The coffin will be handed over to Israeli troops and then will be transported to the National Forensic Institute for Identification.
The development follows Israel’s demand for the return of Bibas’s body after deviating in the previous transfer on Thursday.
Shiri Bibas and her children, Kfir Bibas and Ariel Bibas. Of the four bodies Hamas returned to Israel on Thursday, two were identified as two young children. The third was assumed to be their mother at first, but not, the Israeli defense forces said. (Kindly, a family forum with hostages)
Initially, it was believed that Bibas was one of four hostages handed over to Israel on Thursday, after confirmation of Hamas. However, Israeli national Forensic Medicine Institute She could only check her two children’s identities.
It was revealed that the body in the coffin bearing the name and photo of Shiri Bibas was an unidentified woman, not a abducted mother of two, which caused a wide anger in Israel.
Ofri Bibas Levy, whose brother Yarden, 34, took hostage with his wife Shiri, 32, and two children (Reuters/Denis Balibouse/File Photo)
Two children were identified as Ariel and Kfir Bibas, at the age of four and ten months, killed by Hamas terrorists with bare hands, Israel said. The fourth body was not identified, but it was believed that Odeed Lifshitz, a retired journalist and activist.
Israeli defense forces said she was in contact with the Bibas family.
Terror Group responds after failing to return the body of killed hostages Shiri Bibas
Shiri Bibas and her children, Kfir Bibas and Ariel Bibas. Of the four bodies Hamas returned to Israel on Thursday, two were identified as two young children. The third was assumed to be their mother at first, but not, the Israeli defense forces said. (Kindly, a family forum with hostages)
“We have been praying for months for Bibas Bibas to return home. Yesterday our worst nightmare was confirmed,” the IDF spokesman said. Adm. Daniel Hagari said: “Kfir and Ariel were killed in cold blood. The terrorists did not shoot them – they killed them with their bare hands.
In response to the findings, the hostage and missing families said that “the frightening discoveries were shaken to the core.”
Bibas family, on the left: Yarden, Ariel, Shiri and Kfir (Ofri Bibas Levy)
“This barbarian act is another undeniable testament of the incompatible brutality of those who continue to hold our loved ones,” the group statement said. “The same hands that slaughtered Ariel and Kfir are those who hold our fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in unimaginable conditions.”
“Today is a tragic day,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday. “It’s a day of boundless sadness, indescribable pain. Four-year-old Ariel Bibas, his children’s brother one-year-old Kfir and 84-year-old Odeed Lifshitz brutally killed Hamas Savages.”
Kfir and Ariel Bibas, at the age of 4 and 10 months, were killed by Hamas terrorists with bare hands, Israel said. (State Israel / X)
Danny Danon, Ambassador of Israeli in the United Nations, said Hamas “continues to violate any basic moral value,” even after the death of two children.
“Instead of returning Shiri, mother Kfir and Ariel, Hamas returned the unidentified body, as if it were a worthless shipment. This is a new low, evil and cruelty without a parallel,” he added.
Young boys and their mother were abducted from their home by terrorist Hamas during a deadly group of terrorism 7. October 2023. Attack. Yarden Bibas, Ariel and Kfir’s father tried to protect them and were abducted before the abduction of their wife and children, “IDF said.
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Yarden returned as part of the land registration agreement on February 1. Netanyahu said Hamas would pay for a “full price” because it does not follow through the return of the body of Shiri Bibasa.
“God will save their blood, and we will take revenge,” he said.
Fox News’ Yonat Fringing contributed to this report.
