Expecting virtues or any kind of moral measure determined from Islamic terrorists is utopian, especially if we consider the barbarism performed by the In Israel on October 7, 2023. However, the rules of a ceasefire and the conditions stipulated for their fulfillment, require a certain decorum, the result of the seriousness of what was negotiated and what happens in the military aspect. Although both belligerents are following all the established rules, the terrorist group, takes advantage of this moment of paralyzing hostilities to demonstrate Israel, and to the still survive world, and would be willing to continue fighting if necessary.
Today, during the first phase of the ceasefire agreement, bodies of four hostages killed in Gaza were returned to Israel. The Bibas family, inhabitants of a kibibutz in the south of the country, was kidnapped by the terrorists on the day of the invasion in 2023, the father, mother and two children. The father, Yarden, was released on the last day of February 1, but after this day, he must have felt freedom as a punishment, noting that the rest of his family died. The wife, Shiri and the two children, Ariel, 4, and Kfir, just 9 months old, did not return from Gaza alive and had in their deaths one of the most cruel and disgusting demonstrations of political use by a fundamentalist group. In preparing the black coffins for the Red Cross return, the covered bodies were exposed on a stage in central Gaza, surrounded by hooded and armed men, singing slogans in Arabic. In the background, a poster exposing the pictures of the children and the mother, also showed an assembly of the figure of premier Benjamin Netanyahu as the devil, calling him Nazi and blaming the Israeli government for the deaths through a bombing during the war period.
For now, the posthumous exams have not found the cause of death and even raise the possibility of the remains allegedly attributed to the mother not, in fact, of Shiri Bibas. However, the complete disrespect for cruelly kidnapped and dead children, using them as an instrument of religious and political war through international terrorism, promoted strong reactions around the world. United Nations High Human Rights Commissioner, Volker Türk, vehemently condemned the bodies parade, calling the act of abominable and a break in international law. The premie, Netanyahu, said the day is of deep anguish for the entire state of Israel and promised to eliminate Hamas.
After more than 500 days of a conflict that has been repeated in the Middle East for decades, humanitarian concerns with the population of They are growing in front of Donald Trump’s plan to remove 2 million people from his homeland. The provocative way Hamas performs each release of hostages is seen as a constant threat to the security of concomitantly to a prelude to a break from ceasefire and the resumption of war soon. Unfortunately, the cruelty of terrorist acts and the disproportionality of Israel’s response in the early months culminated with the gradual dehumanization of innocents, which, like the Bibas family, had their lives torn by a war that does not belong to them. Times remain foggy and dark in the Middle East, and despite the apparent calm, it seems that the conflict is far from the end.
