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Shiri Bibas and his son, both killed in captivity
An air strike will have killed Yarden Bibas’s sons. The bodies of the two children will be released this Saturday.
Yarden Bibas is 34 years old and was one of the hostages released on February 1, along with the Portuguese Offer Calderon. He had been arrested since the attacks of October 7, and the photographs taken during his kidnapping at Kibbutz Nir Oz show him injured.
On the same date, their two children and their wife, Shiri were also captured. Kfir and Ariel Bibas became faces of the Israelo-Arab conflict, because they were The newest hostages of the Palestinian armed group. Kfir was captured at 9 months, and the 4 -year -old brother.
In November 2023, Hamas reported that the two children had died, But until recently the truth of this statement was still suspected. But doubts are faded now: the terrorist group states that it will free their bodies on Saturday, as well as two more hostages that died in captivity.
Khalil al-Hayya, head of the Hamas negotiating team, also assured that 6 live hostages will be released on Saturday, following the second phase of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and the armed group.
One of the kidnapping of the Bibas family became one of the first remarkable moments of October 7, when Shiri clung firmly to her children, with Ariel still sucking in the pacifier. The children do not cry or make noise while the Hamas militants surround their mother, with a blanket wrapped around the body. His grandparents were killed in the attack.
According to Hamas, children and mother will have died due to an Israeli air strike. One released by the terrorist group shows the father, Yarden, when he was still arrested, in which The hostage accuses the prime minister of his own country, Benjamin Netanyahu, of being the guilty of the death of his children.
“Netanyahu bombed and killed my wife and two children; They were my life… I ask them to return their bodies to be buried in Israel, ”asks Yarden Bibas in the released images.
The Israelite Armed Forces called the video “psychological terror”, but they did not deny the deaths of children: they informed family members that they may not be alive.
A family cousin in 2023 that “Ariel is a fragile child and has several health problems,” he said, explaining that the four -year -old boy has a skin problem that needs treatment. “He is a very lively child and is very fond of cars and tractors,” he recalled. And “it takes baby powder,” he had regretted, since he was still being breastfed at the time of his kidnapping.
