Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip – Hamas released the bodies of four Israeli hostages on Thursday who said they included mothers and her two young children who had long been afraid of the dead and came to embody the agony of the nation that are the following October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel.
The remains were considered Bibos' width and her two childrenAriel and Kfir, as well as Oded Lishitz, who was 83 when he was abducted. The kyhire, which was 9 months old when he was taken away, was the youngest of all prisoners. Hamas said all four were killed with their guards in Israeli airstrikes.
“Our hearts – the hearts of the whole nation – lie in the carcakes,” Israeli President Isaac Duke said in a statement. “On behalf of Israel, I bow my head and sorry. Pay for not protecting you on this terrible day. Forgiveness for not bringing you home safely.”
The militants showed four black coffins on stage surrounded by banners, including the Great, which reflects Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a vampire when the Red Cross vehicles arrived at the scene in the gas strip. The fighters then transferred the coffins to the Red Cross cars, where red vests were covered with white sheets before placed in.
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The convoy of the Red Cross headed back to Israel, where the authorities will carry out official identification of residues using DNA, which is supposed to take up to two days. Only then will families be given a final notice.
Thousands of people, including a large number of disguised and armed fighters from Hamas and other factions, gathered at the outskirts of Southern Gaza UNIS.
Israeli channels did not broadcast. On the hostage area in Tel -Vavve, where the Israelis gathered to watch the live hostage, on the big screen shows a selection of photos and videos from Lifshitz and the Bibasov family, including the giganing baby Kfir and the family dressed in Batman costumes .
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Dozens of residents of Kibbut Nir Oz, where four were abducted, gathered to wave the Israeli flags under the borders of their temporary house north of Kibbut.
In recent weeks Israelis noted the return of 24 live hostages under a minor ceasefire It paused in the 15 months of the war. But on Thursday, the transfer will give a gloomy reminder of those who died in captivity when the talks leading to the truce lasted for more than a year.
It can also give impetus to negotiations in the second stage of ceasefire, which is unlikely to begin. The first stage is established in early March.
Kfir Bibas was only 9 months old, a red-haired baby with a toothless smile when on October 7, 2023, militants invaded the family. As the militants brought them into gas.
Her husband, Jden Bibas, was taken separately and released this month after 16 months in captivity.
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Relatives in Israel clung to Nadezhda, marking the first and second birthday of the kfir and the fifth brother. The Baba family on Wednesday said she was waiting for “identification procedures” before admitting that their loved ones died.
Fans all over Israel wore orange in solidarity with the family – a reference to red hair of two boys – and a popular children's song was written in their honor.
Like the Bibaban family, Adead Lyshitz was abducted by Nir Oz Kibbut, together with his wife, Johaza, who was released during a weekly ceasefire in November 2023. Oded was a journalist who campaigned for the recognition of Palestinian rights and peace between Arabs and Jews.
The militants led by Hamas abducted 251 hostages, including about 30 children, as a result of the October 7 attack, which also killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians.
More than half hostages, and most women and children were released in ceasefire or other transactions. Israeli troops rescued eight and removed dozens of bodies of people who died in the original attack or who died in captivity.
On Saturday, Hamas intends to release six live hostages in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, and says to release four more bodies next week, completing the first stage of ceasefire. This will leave the militants from about 60 hostages, all men, about half of whom are considered dead.
Hamas said he would not release the rest of the prisoners without a long ceasefire and complete Israeli removal. Netanyahu, with the full support of the Trump administration, says he seeks to destroy Hamas's military and guidelines and returning all hostages, goals that are widely regarded as mutually exclusive.
Trump's proposal to remove about 2 million Palestinians from Gaza, so that the United States could possess and restore it, which Netanyahu welcomed, but are universally rejected by Palestinians and Arab countries, thrown the fire in further doubt.
Hamas can be reluctant to release more hostages when he believes that the war will resume for the purpose of destroying the group or forcibly transferring the gas population.
Israel's military offensive killed more than 48,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, the Gaza Ministry, which does not distinguish civilians and participants in their records. Israel says more than 17,000 fighters have been killed without providing evidence.
The offensive destroyed huge areas of gas, reducing whole quarters to the fields of glowing and bombed buildings. In the midst, 90% of the gas population moved. Many have returned to their homes to find nothing left and no way of recovery.