The body of Israeli hostages Shiri Bibas was sent back to Israel after Hamas returned the bad.
The Bibas family confirmed on Saturday morning the human remains which were returned to Israel of the Gaza Strip torn by the war on Friday were identified as that of Shiri, 32.
“Last night, our Shiri returned home,” the family said in a statement. “Following the process of identifying at the Institute of Legal Medicine, we received this morning the news that we feared – our Shiri was murdered in captivity and now returned home to her sons, her husband, her husband, his sister and all his family to rest.
A spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross told ABC News on Friday evening that his team “received human remains, which were then transferred to the Israeli authorities”.
The Palestinian brigades Mujahedeen, a small militant group in Gaza, thought they had held Shiri and his two children, said on Friday evening that he had given the remains of Shiri to the Red Cross, according to the Associated Press.
This undated photo provided by hostages Family Forum shows Shiri Bibas, which was removed and brought to Gaza on October 7, 2023.
Family forum of hostages via AP
Shiri, her husband Yarden, 35, and their two young children Ariel, 4, and Kfir, 9 months old, were kidnapped from their home in southern Israel and took captive to Gaza during the terrorist attack led By Hamas on October 7, 2023. Yarden survived the test and was released earlier this month.
Hamas, the militant group that governs Gaza, has given the remains of what he said to be four deceased Israeli hostages – Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas, as well as Oded Lifshitz, 84, Thursday as part of the first phase of the ceasefire with Israel. After carrying out a forensic analysis, Israeli officials positively identified three of the returned bodies like Liffhitz and the children of Bibas, but said that the fourth was not that of their mother or any other hostage. The analysis also revealed thatiel and KFIR “were both brutally murdered by terrorists while he was held hostage in Gaza, at the latest in November 2023,” according to Israeli defense forces.
“The terrorists did not shoot the two young boys – they killed them with bare hands,” the IDF said in a statement. “Subsequently, they committed horrible acts to cover these atrocities. This assessment is based on both the medico-legal results of the identification process and the intelligence that supports the results. »»
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised to take “revenge” on the return of an incorrect body.
Hamas has repeatedly denied the allegations of Israel that he had killed the Bibas family, calling the claims “just pure lies” in a statement on Friday. The group maintains that the mother and her two young children died during an Israeli air strike.
Ellie Kaufan, Jordana Miller and Samy Zyara contributed to this report.
