The Israeli military said on Friday that two bodies released by Hamas as a child Kfir Bibas and his four-year-old brother Ariel Bibas were identified-but a third body was not that of Shiri Bibas, the mother of the children, whose body was also to be released become.
“After the end of the identification process by the National Institute for Forensic Medicine in cooperation with the Israel police, IDF representative of the Bibas family informed that their relatives Ariel and Kfir Bibas were identified.
“During the identification process it was found that the additional body is not that of Shiri Bibas and no agreement was found for another hostage.”
Ariel and Kfir Bibas were the two youngest prisoners who were attacked by Hamas on October 7, 2023, attack and the strongest symbols of the trauma caused on that day.
Hamas said that it handed over the corpses of the two boys and Shiri Bibas together with that of a fourth hostage, Oded Lifschitz, on Thursday as part of the Gaza ceasefire agreement with the support of the United States and the mediation of Qatar and Egypt last month.
The IDF condemned the return of an “anonymous, not identified corporation” as a “violation of Hamas” by the Hamas of their commitment to return the four deceased hostages, and called for Shiri Bibas’ body with all our hostages. “
4 black coffins placed on stage
Vehicles of the Red Cross drove away from the handover location in the Gaza Strip with four black coffins placed on a stage. Each of the boxes had a small picture of the hostages.
Armed militants in black and camouflage uniforms surrounded the area.
Volker Türk, the feasurer of the United Nations, described the paradise of body in Gazaabhorrent and cruel and said that she flown in view of international law.
“According to international law, every handover of the remains of the deceased must comply with the prohibition of cruel, inhumane or humiliating treatment in order to respect the dignity of the deceased and their families,” he said in a statement.
“There are no words”
After the hostages were handed over by the Red Cross, the coffins were scanned according to the military according to the military. The coffins of the four deceased hostages were brought to Israel, said the Israeli military.
“Torture.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the country was “unanimously combined in unbearable grief” and vowed to “eliminate” the Hamas.
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.
Hundreds of people gathered in the winter cold before the handover in Khan Younis in southern Gaza. The militants of the armed Hamas toured the area in black and camouflage uniforms.
A militant stood next to a poster of a man who stood over coffins that were wrapped in Israeli flags. Instead of legs, he had tree roots in the ground, which indicates that the country belongs to Palestinians.
A large poster was hung at the handover location, which Netanyahu represented as a vampire and characterized it as a war criminal.
Kfir Bibas was nine months old when the Bibas family, including her father thrower, was kidnapped in Kibbutz Nir Oz, one of a series of communities near Gaza that were overrun by the attackers guided by Hamas.
The Hamas said in November 2023 that the boys and their mother were killed in an Israeli air raid, but their death was never confirmed by the Israeli authorities, and even at the last minute some refused to accept that they were dead.
“Shiri and the children became a symbol,” said Yiftach Cohen, a resident of Nir Oz, who lost about a quarter of his killed or kidnapped residents during the attack on October 7.
Father published earlier
Yardgen Bibas was returned this month in an earlier exchange of hostages for prisoners. But the family said this week that their “journey is not over” until they receive the final confirmation of what happened to the boys and their mother.
Some of these Israelis who were killed on October 7 were well -known peace activists.
Lifshitz was 83 years old when he was kidnapped by Nir Oz, the Kibbutz he had found. His wife Yocheved, 85, was confiscated with him and released two weeks later with another older woman.
Lifshitz was a former journalist. In a hair network published in left in January 2019, he criticized Netanyahu’s politics, including Hamas and Gaza.
Lifshitz ‘family later said in a statement that she had been informed that his body had been officially identified.
“The healing process of our family now begins and only ends when the last hostage is returned,” said the family.
Only after identification will there be a formal announcement of your death and a funeral.
The handover marks the first return of corpses during the current agreement, and Israel is not expected to confirm its identities until the complete DNA checks are completed.
Despite the allegations on both sides of the ceasefire injuries, the fragile agreement, which came into force on January 19, has been in a series of hostages of the hostages in the Gaza for Palestinian prisoners and prisoners who kept Israel.
Netanyahu was criticized by his extreme right -wing coalition allies because he agrees to the deal, which some feel in Israel, how Hamas rewards Hamas and leaves the militant group in Gaza on the spot.
Hamas handed over the corpses of four Israeli hostages, including the child Kfir Bibas and his four -year -old brother Ariel, the two youngest prisoners who attacked Hamas on October 7, 2023. Update: The Israeli military said on Friday that two corpses published by Hamas as a child Kfir Bibas and his four-year-old brother Ariel Bibas were identified-but a third body was not that of Shiri Bibas, the mother of the children, whose body should also be released become.
However, consecutive surveys have widespread the public for the armistice, and thousands of Israelis have taken to the streets to demand the government until all remaining hostages are returned.
After the attack on communities in Israel led by Hamas, Israel penetrated the coastal enclave on October 7, 2023, killed around 1,200 people according to Israeli days and took 251 as hostages.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, the following Israeli military campaign killed more than 48,000 Palestinians in Gaza, destroyed many of its buildings and left most of the population.
More hostages published
The handover of corpses on Thursday follows the return of six lively hostages, which are expected on February 15 in exchange for hundreds of other Palestinians to arrest women and minors in Gaza during the war.
As part of the ceasefire contract, Hamas agreed to publish 33 hostages in an exchange for almost 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and prisoners in the first phase of an agreement to open the way to end the war in Gaza.
So far, 19 Israeli hostages have been published, as have five Thaille, which were returned in an unscheduled handover.
Negotiations for a second phase, which are expected to cover the return of around 60 remaining hostages, they will start in the coming days.
The topic was also clouded by US President Donald Trump to the Palestinians in order to be relocated outside of Gaza, a step that critics say that a war crime and ethnic cleaning and the enclaves under US control can be developed as a bank possession.
