“We demand that Hamas return Shiri home along with all our hostages,” the Israeli military said.
(JNS)
The body that Israel redeemed from Hamas, which the terror organization said is Shiri Bibis, belongs to an unidentified person and not the 33-year-old mother of Ariel, 5, and Kfir, 2, the Israel Defense Forces said Friday morning.
The Israeli National Institute of Forensic Medicine and the Israel Police identified two of the four redeemed bodies as Ariel and Kfir, whom terrorists “brutally murdered” in captivity in November 2023, the Israeli military said.
“This is a violation of utmost severity by the Hamas terrorist organization, which is obligated under the agreement to return four deceased hostages,” the IDF said. “We demand that Hamas return Shiri home along with all our hostages.”
Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) stated that “this is heartbreaking news. May the memory of Kfir and Ariel Bibas be a blessing.”
“Hamas must return Shiri Bibas—immediately—or face severe consequences,” the congressman wrote.
The Jewish Federations of North America stated that it is “appalled, outraged and disgusted by Hamas’s cruel and deceitful psychological warfare against the Bibas family, the State of Israel and the Jewish people.”
“Not only did these terrorists kidnap Kfir and Ariel Bibas, two young children—aged just nine months and four years—but forensic evidence shows that they brutally murdered them roughly a month into their captivity,” the Federation stated. “Further, they lied about returning the body of their mother, Shiri, adding to the immense pain of the family. In case it was not yet clear to anyone, Hamas cannot be allowed to remain in power.”
AIPAC said that Hamas was guilty of “unfathomable evil.”
