Hamas will hand over the remains of four dead hostages, the Israeli prime minister Benjamin NetanyahuThe office confirmed on Wednesday. In addition, Netanyahu’s office said that the terrorist group is expected to deliver the remains of hostages without “ceremonies”.
Last week, Hamas was widely convicted of maintaining a ceremony with the coffins of four dead hostages: Ariel Bibas, Kfir Bibas, Shiri Bibas and Oded Lifshitz. It was later discovered that the coffin that was supposed to contain the remains of Shiri Bibas, who has the body of an unidentified woman Gazan. Shiri’s posthumous remains were later returned to Israel.
“This Hamas monsters also cynically refused to return the boy’s mother, Shiri, and instead sent a gazan body, in a marriage violation of the agreement,” Netanyahu said in a statement on February 21.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem on December 9, 2024. (Maya Alleruzzo/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
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Top officials of the United Nations, including spokesman for UN Secretary General António Guterres and High Commissioner of the UN for Human Rights Volker, condemned ceremonies.
UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric told the press that Secretary General Guterres had found “the paradaming of the body and depicted the coffins of the late hostages” as “awful and awful”.
In his statement, Türk cited international legal requirements for the return of the remains of the deceased, but did not particularly say that Hamas’s ceremony had violated international law.
“We invite all the offenses to be carried out in privacy, as respect and care,” Türk said. “According to international law, every surrender of remains [the] The deceased must be in accordance with the prohibition of cruel, inhuman or humiliating treatment, ensuring the respect of the dignity of the deceased and their families. “
Pictures of the Bibas and Oded Lifshitz family, 84, which were swollen during the deadly 7 October 2023, the Hamas attack and then killed, were shown next to the candles in the dining room in Kibbutz Nir Oz, after their bodies were handed over to Israel, below, on conditions, on conditions, on the conditions, on Israel, on February 25, 2025. (Reuters/Amir Cohen)
The funeral took place for Shiri Bibas and her sons after their remains handed over Hamas
Many, however, were not satisfied with the statements of the UN official, with some critics scored by an international institution for the alleged lack of action After October 7th.
“For 16 months, Israel has been fighting an overwhelmed terrorist organization that does not give the value of human life, especially if it is Israeli or Jewish – as long as international institutions like the UN, restrained from the condemnation of Hamas and formally demanded the immediate return of our hostages,” said Israeli UN Danny Danon.
While Hamas released a List of hostages Whose bodies will allegedly return today, Israel has not officially confirmed the identities of the deceased hostages.
People look at the flowers and graves of Shiri, 32, and her two children, Kfir, 9 months, and Ariel, 4, from the Bibas family, who were abducted from their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz during the deadly October 2023, the Hamas attack, and then killed in Gaza, in their parties, in Tvozohar. (Reuters/Ronen Sound)
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Odeed Lifshitz, one of the hits killed whose remains were returned last week, was set on Tuesday. His wife Yocheved provided an emotional praise in which she vowed to fight to stay hostage to come home.
While Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas were buried on Wednesday together in one suitcase, according to Time of Israel. Yarden Bibas, who also took the hostage on October 7th, but later released, called his wife and two young sons. He also apologized to his wife and sons because they could not protect him during Hamas’s brutal attacks.
“Shiri, this is closest to me from October 7th and I can’t kiss you or hug you, and that breaks me,” Yarden Bibas said.
