The household of Shiri Bibas has stated a physique launched on Friday by Hamas is hers, following a horror mix-up.
Hamas handed over stays on Thursday, claiming they had been of hostage Shiri Bibas, nonetheless forensic findings confirmed they had been of an unidentified girl.
Different stays returned to Israel had been recognized as Shiri Bibas’s two sons – Ariel, 4, and Kfir, 9 months. They had been stated to have been killed in November 2023.
The physique of Israeli hostage Oded Lifschitz, 84, was additionally returned on Thursday,
This comes as one other hostage launch is at present going down in Gaza, with six male Israelis set to be freed.
At time of reporting, Tal Shoam, 40, kidnapped from Kibbutz Be’eri and Avera Mengistu, taken hostage in 2014, have been handed over to Israel.
Eliya Cohen, 27, Omer Shem Tov, 22, and Omer Wenkert, 23, all kidnapped on October 7, 2023, are set to be launched in the present day as effectively, together with Hisham al-Sayed, a Bedouin Arab Israeli who has been held in Gaza since 2015.
In an announcement, the Bibas household stated: "Our Shiri was murdered in captivity and has now returned residence. For 16 months, we sought certainty, and now that we’ve got it, there isn’t a consolation in it, however we hope for the start of a closure."
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Kinfolk additionally accused Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu of "abandoning" the hostages, saying there can be "no forgiveness" for the failures on October 7 and the failure to deliver the household residence.
"We didn’t obtain an apology from you at this painful second," stated Ofri Bibas, the aunt of Kfir and Ariel.
Hamas claimed the mom and two youngsters had been killed in an Israeli airstrike, nonetheless, Israel has stated forensic findings confirmed the 2 youngsters had been killed with "naked arms".
IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari stated the household had been intentionally murdered "in chilly blood" with "naked arms" and that terrorists then "dedicated horrific acts to cowl up these atrocities".
He stated proof of the atrocities had been shared with "companions all over the world to allow them to confirm it."
Shiri, 32, Ariel and Kfir Bibas had been kidnapped from their residence in Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023.
Husband and father Yarden Bibas, 34, was kidnapped individually from his household, and was held in Gaza for nearly a 12 months and a half till being launched alive on February 1, 2025.
Some 1,200 individuals – largely civilians – had been killed within the October 7 assaults and 251 had been taken hostage when terrorist group Hamas infiltrated Israel in 2023.
In response, Israel launched a navy marketing campaign in opposition to Hamas, which has killed round 48,319 Palestinians, based on the Hamas-run Gaza well being ministry which doesn’t distinguish between civilians and fighters.