The four -member family was among more than 180 Kibutz inhabitants Nir OzAgricultural community in southern Israel, killed or abducted in October 7th. Since then, the family has become the faces of the national trauma, which caused a fierce Israeli war in Gaza directed at the eradication of Hamas, an attack that killed more than 47,000 Palestinians, according to health officers in Gaza, who do not distinguish fighters and civilians.
More than 1,750 people in Israel were killed in the war, about 1,200 on the day of the attack on October 7, according to Israeli officials. Tolls include more than 890 members of Israeli military forces.
Through more than a year of waiting, the hostage families and their supporters wore orange balloons and wore orange shirts in honor of missing children and their ginger -colored hair. They held big events to mark the first two birthdays of Kfir, which never celebrated any of the captivity.
All other children seized in the attack on October 7th were published in the previous agreement on the termination of fire.
According to Israeli media, Israeli media, Israeli officials pressed Hamas negotiators for greater clarity on Mrs. Bibas and her children. As a female civilian with children, it was expected to be released in the initial phase of the interruption agreement, before soldiers or men, if alive.
Mr. Bibas is abducted separately from his family.
In the early morning hours before his arrest, he sent SMS to his sister Ofi Bibas-Levy to tell her about incoming rocket fire, according to an interview she gave Kan, Israeli public show. He later sent her a message that the militants had entered the camp. He had a gun, he told her, but the militants had automatic rifles.
He then described the scenes of the conflict on Kibutz and his fear that his two young son would not be able to remain silent.
“I feel like an end,” he wrote to her at 9:10 in the morning.
The Attack video on October 7th on Nir Oz discovered pictures of militants who drilled the open door of the Bibas family.
Shortly before her brother was captured, Mrs. Bibas-Levy told Kan, he sent her SMS and their parents to love them. At 9:45 in the morning he wrote, “They are inside.”
Mrs. Bibas-Levy told Kan that she first found out about her brother’s abduction on October 7th when she saw a video of militants who abduced him a few days later.
