“The examination of the Institute of Pathology clarified yesterday that the two children Ariel and Kfir Bibas were brutally killed in captivity by Hamas And they did not die due to the bombings of the Israeli defense forces ». This was reported by the office of the Israeli Prime Minister.
“We will act with determination to bring home Shiritogether with all our prisoners, both the living and the fallen, and we will guarantee that Hamas pays the full price for this cruel and evil violation of the agreement “, said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a video declaration after the discovery that one of the bodies delivered yesterday is not that of Shiri Bibas, the mother of the two kidnapped children.
Israel has in fact accused the Palestinian movement Hamas of killing the children Ariel and Kfir Bibas during their imprisonment in Gaza and of having delivered the body of an unknown person instead of that of his mother Shiriof Argentine origin. As foreseen by the Tregue agreement in Gaza, Hamas delivered four bodies that said belonging to the three members of the Bibas family and the Israeli journalist with retired Oded Lifshitz.
Shiri and his children Ariel and Kfir, who were four years old and eight months when they were kidnapped on October 7, 2023, had become a symbol of the hostages taken from Hamas. The father, who was also kidnapped, was released on February 1st.
The Palestinian Islamist movement said that the woman and the two children had been killed during an Israeli bombing on Gaza in November 2023, but Israel had not confirmed it and their relatives hoped they were still alive. A spokesman for the Israeli army, Avichay Adraee, said that the analysis of the bodies delivered and the information available indicated that “Ariel and Kfir Bibas were brutally murdered in prison in November 2023 by Palestinian terrorists”. In his declaration, the spokesman also denounced that “the extra body is not that of their mother, Shiri, nor that of no other Israeli hostage”. It is an “unidentified” body, said Adraee, accusing Hamas of “a flagrant violation” of the truce agreement In Gaza and asking to “return Shiri Bibas, as well as all the kidnapped people”.
Hamas yesterday exhibited, in front of a Palestinian crowd, the four coffins with the bodies of the hostages who died on the stage set up in Khan Youunis Before delivery to the Red Cross, as shown by the images transmitted by Al Jazeera with Prime Minister Netanyahu depicted as a bloodthirsty vampire. The caption reads: “The war criminal assassinated them with the missiles of hunting planes”. In the background images of coffins covered by Israeli flags: “Return to war, return of the kidnapped to the coffins”.
The Red Cross then brought the bodies to the IDF troops. The army, having performed a short military ceremony led by the Rabbi of the Idf Eyal Karim, brought the hostages killed to the Abu Kabir forensic institute for identification.