Probably toddlers underneath
Hamas hands over corpses of four Israeli hostages
Updated on February 20, 2025 – 8:57 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
The Hamas has passed the remains of four people to the Red Cross in the Gaza Strip. Israel is now examining identity. It could also be the latest hostages.
The terrorist organization Hamas has handed over the remains of four people to the Red Cross in the Gaza Strip. The ceremony in Chan Junis was seen in a live broadcast on television. Israel now wants to examine the identity of the corpses, where, according to Hamas, it is supposed to be hostage.
Before the handover of four hostages killed on Thursday from the Gaza Strip to Israel, the members of the German-Israele Shiri Bibas and her two sons kfir and Ariel had declared that they would be waiting for a confirmation from the official side.
“If we receive a devastating message, this must be done via the right official channels after all identification procedures have been completed,” said the Bibas family late Wednesday evening.
So far, the Israeli authorities have not given the official names of the corpses to be transferred, which were dragged into the Gaza strips on October 7 in the brutal attack of the radical Islamic Palestinian organization Hamas. The office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that it had received a corresponding list. The families were informed.
On Wednesday evening, the forum of the hostage families had announced that it received the “shocking message” that “Shiri Bibas, her children Ariel and Kfir and Oded Lifshitz are no longer among us”.
Kfir and Ariel Bibas are the last children who are still captured by Hamas as hostages in the Gaza Strip. Hamas had delayed the toddlers and their parents Shiri and Jarten from the Kibbutz Nir OZ more than 16 months ago. Kfir was just nine months old at the time, his brother Ariel for four years.
