The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that Israel would pay Hamas for the fact that Shiri Bibas was not published by Shiri Bibas’ hostage as agreed.
“We will act determined to bring Shiri home together with all our hostages – both alive and dead – and ensure that Hamas pays the full price for this cruel and evil violation of the agreement,” he said in a video declaration.
The explanation came after Israeli specialists said that one of the four bodies handed over by Hamas on Thursday was an unidentified woman and not a Shiri Bibas whose two sons were handed over and identified.
Netanyahu accused Hamas of “acting unspeakably cynical” by putting the body of a gaza woman in the coffin instead of Shiri Bibas, who was kidnapped together with her two sons and her husband, Yardgen, during the Hamas attack on Israel in October . 7, 2023.
Netanyahu did not give any details about a possible Israeli reaction, but the incident underlined the fragility of the ceasefire agreement, which was achieved last month with the help of Katari and Egyptian mediators.
6 hostages too, says Hamas
Ismail al-Thawabta, director of the media office of the Hamas-led Gaza, said that Shiri Bibas’ remains seemed to have been mixed with other human remains after they have been buried in the ruins of a building that was destroyed in an Israeli air raid.
Hamas said in November 2023 that the children and their mother were killed in an Israeli air raid. The Israeli military said that secret service estimates and forensic analysis The bodies of the Bibas children said that they were deliberately killed by their kidnappers.
The Israelis came together in Tel Aviv on Thursday when the corpses of four hostages – including two children – were brought back to Israel from Gaza, in what a man has described as a “saddest day” since the deadly October 7, 2023 Militants of the Hamas militants on October 7, 2023.
It is not clear whether the confusion endangers the start of the negotiations for a second phase of the ceasefire, which was expected in the coming days.
Hamas said that it had planned to publish six lively hostages, as it was originally planned for Saturday.
The armed wing of the militant group Hamas said that on Saturday she would publish Israeli hostages Eliya Cohen, Omer Shem Tov, Tal Shoham, Omer Wenkert, Hisham Al-Sayed and Avera Mengisto.
Hisham al-Sayed and Avera Mengisto are civilians who have entered Gaza a decade ago and have been recorded there since.
Red cross, hostage family group condemn the confusion
The Red Cross announced Reuters on Friday that it was “worried and dissatisfied” about the way Hamas had taken place.
“The ICRC does not participate in sorting, screening or investigating the deceased – this is the responsibility of the parties of the conflict” dignity.
The failure to outrage Shiri Bibas and the staged public handover of the four coffins on Thursday in Israel.
“It’s like making a joke of us,” said 75-year-old Ilana Caspi. “We are in grief and that is more. It is as if you are doing a blow again, another and another. It’s really terrible.”
One of the main groups that represent the hostage families said that they were “horrified and destroyed” by the news that Shiri Bibas’ body had not been returned, but demanded that the ceasefire still remained in Gaza all 70 still remained in Gaza bring back.
“Save them before this nightmare,” said the forum for hostages and missing families in a explanation.
When the tension over the ceasefire from Gaza rose, Netanyahu ordered the Israeli military to intensify the operations in another Palestinian territory, the occupied west bank, after a series of explosions in their depots near Tel Aviv blasted empty into the air became.
No victims were reported, but the explosions remembered the campaign of suicide attacks on public transport, in which hundreds of Israeli civilians were killed in the second intifada in the early 2000s.
