Israel says Hamas will pay a “full price” for handing over to Gazan’s remains instead of hostages Shiri Bibas

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that Hamas would pay a “full price” for what he called “cruel and vicious violations” Tennish Gauze cessation of fire An agreement after the Israeli and American terrorist group returned the remains of a gazan woman Instead of Israeli mother She took hostages with her two young children.

Israeli officials said late Thursday night that Hamas had handed over the body of an unidentified woman Gazan earlier that day, instead of the remains of Shiri Bibasa, as expected. In the handover orchestrated under the fire interruption agreement, which came into force on January 19, Hamas was supposed to return the bodies on Thursday Bibas together with his two killed son, Ariel, 4, and Kfir, who was the youngest youngest of 251 at just nine months Israelites seized during a terrorist attack on October 7, 2023.

The children’s remains were returned, along with the body of Odee Lifshitz, who was 83 years old, but Netanyahu said that, instead of the remains of Shiri Bibasa, Hamas “put the body of Gazana in the coffin.”

“Let the holy memory of Oded Lifshitz and Ariel and Kfir Bibas be cut forever in the heart of the nation,” he said. “May God take revenge on their blood. And so we will.”

Hamas has hard since November 2023 That Shiri Bibas, her children and Lifshitz were all killed in Israeli bombing in Gaza, along with some militants who held them captured. Yarden Bibas, a child’s father, was not with his family on October 7, but took it separately. He was Published earlier this month After 16 months in captivity.

In a statement on Friday, Hamas indicated the handover of another body, the previous day could be a mistake, claiming that there is “the possibility of error or overlap in the bodies, which may be the result of the occupation of the target and bombing of the place where the family was.”

The statement states that Hamas will watch “these claims with complete seriousness, and we will clearly publish the results,” and added that the group wanted: “Confirm our seriousness and complete commitment to all our obligations, and we have proven it through through through Our behavior over the past days. [to the ceasefire terms] or retaining any bodies with us. “

Hamas urged Israel to return the remains of an unidentified Gazan woman to a decimal Palestinian territory.

Incident, together with previous handover with hostages that saw the large crowds of well -armed Hamas terrorists and civilians who were pushed around the liberated Israelites, and Thursday, for example, a huge propaganda poster behind the coffins holding the remains of hostages depicting Netanyahu as a bloody vampire, pulled out are anger from Israeli officials and Trumps administration.

The international community has also increasingly criticized the handover – including the Red Cross, which facilitated the physical transfer of hostages, living and dead, inside Gaza. On Friday, Reuters, the global organization said she was “worried and dissatisfied with” the way they played.

“ICRC does not participate in the sorting, rehearsal or testing of the deceased – this is the responsibility of the parties to the conflict,” said the Red Cross International Committee, according to Reuters, adding the concern that the transfer of remains on Thursday had not been carried out in a private and dignified way.

The Secretary General of the United Nations António Guterres also issued a statement condemning “Paradification of the body and the depicting coffins of the late Israeli hostages of Hamas on Thursday. According to international law, any surrender of the deceased’s remains must be in accordance with the ban on a cruel, inhuman or humiliating treatment, ensuring respect for. The dignity of the deceased and their families.”

Regardless of any Hamas’s intentionality, this handover of the wrong body and the strict reaction of Israel has left the fragile truce in even more dangerous positions on Friday, just a week before the first six weeks of the stage of the agreement, it is to finish it. A total of 33 living hostages should have been handed over during the first phase in accordance with the terms of the agreement, of which the final six should be released on Saturday.

There were no immediate indications from Israel or Hamas that the planned release on Saturday, and the appropriate release of Israel of Israel of Palestinian prisoners from their prison will not go ahead.

Talks to draw the conditions of the second phase, which should start in early March, they should have started a few weeks ago, but there were no indications of Israel, Hamas or the USA of his regional partners Katar and Egypt, which helped the pregnant negotiation, which is a progress , and it does not have to be achieved.

Netanyahu was under the constant pressure of some extremely right members of his cabinet to end the truce and continue with Israel’s military operation in Gaza, and Netanyahu emphasized that the goal of war was always disarmed, if not destroying Hamas. In this goal, the Israeli government seems to have a Trump administration company.

IN interview On Thursday, State Secretary Marco Rubio called Hamas, “Evil, awful people and the idea that they will ever allow them to continue to have a weapon and be militarized and control the territory, anywhere in the world, cannot be allowed.”

“As long as Hamas is in Gaza, there will never be peace in Gaza,” he said, “because he will return to the attack on Israel, and Israel will have to answer.”

The families of dozens of Israeli hostages still held in Gaza, however, are far less eager to see the continuation of the fight. In a statement cited on Friday, the Haaretz Israeli newspaper, Kibbutz Nir Oz, a community from which children from Bibas and their mother were abducted, said that at the moment she stood at the “clear demands of the Bibas family: release, not revenge.”

“The state must return Shiri in every way, in a way that will not interfere with the continuation of the agreement and the current release of all hostages,” the Kibbutz community was quoted.

“Hamas is a killer organization that does not hesitate to kill infants and toddlers. Our expectations are from the Israeli government, whose actions must be immediately to release all 70 hostages from the hands of the killers and end the constant failure.”

The hostage forum and missing families, representing the families of all Israelites, trapped in a terrorist attack on October 7, said in a separate statement that the “terrified and desolate news” that Shiri Bibasa’s remains were not returned.

“We say the world: Do not look away. In Hamas’s hell in Gaza, 70 more of our children, brothers, sisters and parents remains in captivity, enduring unimaginable terror. Do not abandon them to your fate. Save them from this nightmare.

“Israel and the international community must be firmly ensured in ensuring that the agreement is supported while acting with wisdom and urgency to get rid of these sharp violations,” said the Group. “Each step must be taken with careful responsibility to ensure a safe return of all hostages.”

Forum added to President Trump a specific confession, thanking him “for unwavering support and a strong attitude in the fight against terror” and urging the American leader “to continue with us in the search for the immediate return of all hostages.”

The Israeli 15-month war against Hamas killed more than 48,000 people in Gaza, according to the Ministry of Health of Palestinian Territory. About 1,200 Israelites were killed in a terrorist attack caused by a Hamas that caused the war.