The Qassam Brigades told Al Jazeera that they had handed over the remains of Shiri Bibas to the Red Cross , with the Israeli Institute of Forensic Medicine already engaged in identifying them. The story of the woman kidnapped from the Nir Oz kibbutz with her two children, aged nine months and three years, by Hamas , who were then brutally murdered , has infuriated Israel. Also for the cruelty , found in the autopsy, in the deaths of the little ones Kfir and Ariel, killed "in cold blood by the terrorists, with their bare hands . They did not kill them by shooting them. After their deaths, horrible actions were carried out to cover up the atrocities committed: they mutilated the bodies so that the IDF could be blamed for having killed them in a bombing raid."
The autopsy results "were sent to the allies so they can see for themselves and the world how Hamas behaves," said Daniel Hagari, a spokesman for the Israeli military.
As for the body of Shiri, the mother of the two children, the IDF had contested the jihadists' failure to return it: instead of the woman's body, in the black coffin sent by Hamas, the remains of an anonymous woman from Gaza were found whose DNA did not match any of the kidnapped children.
A Hamas official, Ismail al-Thawabteh, explained the mistake by saying that Shiri Bibas' body "was torn to pieces and mixed with other bodies under the rubble after an Israeli attack."
US President Donald Trump, speaking on Fox Radio News, commented indignantly on the delivery of the coffins: "It was terrible, a barbaric scene. It's hard to believe that this is happening in the modern era," he said, implying that Netanyahu wants to resume the war and that the US will support him: "Bibi has no dilemma about resuming the conflict."
The government in Jerusalem, meanwhile, appears to have no intention of blowing up the agreement, at least for now , while the last six living hostages of the 33 to be freed in the first phase of the agreement are about to return home, along with four other bodies of dead kidnapped people. But Netanyahu wanted to send an unequivocal message to Hamas, in his first statement after the identification of the Bibas brothers. "Today the sky is shaking. It is a tragic day. The savages of Hamas tore them from their mother's arms, she fought like a lioness to protect them. Imagine their horror. Imagine the confusion. Children, for God's sake. Who kidnaps a child and a newborn and kills them? Monsters. That's who," he said in a video message holding a photo of Kfir and Ariel. "As prime minister of Israel, I swear that I will not rest until the savages who executed our hostages are brought to justice. They do not deserve to walk this earth. Nothing will stop me. “Nothing,” he angrily promised.
Meanwhile, the Bibas family is grieving . Father Yarden, who was also kidnapped on October 7 but separately from the rest of the family and released two weeks ago, was informed directly by Hagari: "He looked me in the eyes and asked me that the whole world should know and be shocked by the way they killed his children," the IDF spokesman said.
(Unioneonline/vl)
