The remains of Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas were returned, her family said, the day after the Israeli army said that the first set was the remains Hamas had announced earlier this week It turned out to be the body of an unknown woman Gazana.
The Hamas, which the United States and Israel proclaimed a terrorist group on Thursday handed four bodies as part of Gaza Participation Agreement This came into force on January 19th. They included those from Bibas’s two young children, who were taken with their mother during Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. Well, the Israeli forces later said that the body of an unidentified Gazan woman.
Her family said the exact remains were handed over to the evening. The family said that the Israeli Institute of Forensic Medicine identified residues as Bibas’. Memorial services details will be shared later, the family said.
“In 16 months we have sought security, and now that it is here, it does not bring comfort, although we hope it will mark the beginning of the closure,” the statement states in a statement Divide them bring home nowA group that is committed to releasing Israeli hostages.
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The remains of Bibas’s children handed Hamas on Thursday. It was said that the body of Shiri Bibasa was also returned, but the Israeli forces later said that this body was an unidentified Gazan woman. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu On Friday, he vowed to pay Hamas a “full price” After their mistake, calling it a “cruel and vicious violation” of ceasefire.
Bibas’ sons, Ariel and Kfir, were 4 years, or 9 months, when they were taken. Kfir was the youngest of the prisoners on October 7th. The children’s father, Yarden Bibas, was not with his family on October 7, but took the hostages separately. He was Published earlier in February.
The fourth body that Hamas returned was Odeed Lifshitz, who was 83 when he was captured.
Hamas claimed That Shiri Bibas, her sons and Lifshitz killed Israeli Air attack in Gaza. The Bibas family said she was “killed in captivity.”
Bring them home immediately
The preventions of the wrong body put more stresses on the already fragile truce. The first six -week phase of the agreement during which Hamas was supposed to surrender 33 living Israeli hostages should end next week. Hamas is expected to announce six living hostages on Saturday.
Israel also published many Palestinian prisoners during the first phase.
There were no indications of progress in conversations on the second phase of the trial of Israel, Hamas or the USA other countries who helped to commit to agreement.
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 Hamas’s terrorist attack that caused the war.
– Haley Otter and Tucker Reals contributed to this report.
