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The “cruel and wicked violation” can further weaken the termination of ceasefire agreement between the two countries. Hamas says remains have been mixed with other bodies due to air attacks.
Israel accused the Palestinian movement Hamas of killing children Ariel and Kfir Bibas while in captivity, in Gaza, and Replace the mother’s body, Shiri Bibas, with that of an unknown person.
“According to the evaluation of the competent authorities and based on available information and diagnostic indicators, Ariel and Kfir Bibas were brutally murdered in captivity in November 2023 by Palestinian terrorists,” said Israeli Army spokesman Avichay Adraee, on the Telegram message platform.
Hamas stated that at the time of the abduction in Israel were four and a half months, respectively, were killed for Israeli bombing against the Gaza Strip.
Kfir Bibas was the youngest of 251 hostages kidnapped on October 7, 2023. The father of the two children, 35, was released in early February.
Israel also claimed that one of the four bodies delivered by Hamas is not that of the mother of children “nor that of any other Israeli hostage.”
“This is an unidentified body”added the Military spokesman, denouncing “a blatant violation” of the ceasefire agreement by Hamas.
“We appeal to Hamas to return Shiri Bibas and all the kidnapping,” he demanded.
“Unimaginably cynically, they did not return Shiri to their young children, the little angels, and instead put the body of a woman in Gaza in a coffin,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, quoted by
“We will act with determination to bring Shiri home, along with all our hostages – alive and dead – and ensure that Hamas pay the total price for this cruel and perverse violation of the agreement, ”he concluded.
His statement was made hours after ordering the Armed Forces to conduct a “Intense operation” against “terrorist centers” in the West Bank, after a Series of Explosions in three buses near Telavivethat the authorities say it is a presumed terrorist attack.
Hamas admitted the exchange of the bodies, and ensured that the remains of bibas must have been mixed with other human remains of the rubbleafter an Israeli air strike hit the place where it was.
According to The Guardian, this situation threatens to do Decarlar the already fragile ceasefire agreement achieved with US support and the help of Qatar and Egypt mediators last month.
The remains of four people were returned on Thursday by Hamas to the International Red Cross Committee (CIAB) and then to the Israelite Army. Delivery occurs under the Gaza Crach Agreement, which entered into force on January 19, after more than a year of war between Israel and Hamas.
Thursday’s act of delivery was criticized by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, which he considered “Abject and Cruel” The staged return.
“According to international law, any return of remains must respect the prohibition of cruel treatmentinhuman or degrading ”, besides that it should“ ensure respect for the dignity of the deceased and their families, ”added the UN agency.
In an exhibition staged in Khan Yunis, in the south of the Gaza Strip, Hamas Happy Combatants showed four coffins on a stage, each with a photograph of one hostage, in front of a poster showing an image of Prime Minister Israelite , Benjamin Netanyahu, his face covered with blood.
However, after delivery, the authorities of the Hamas -controlled Gaza range accused the “double standard” CIAB in the treatment of people killed in the conflict, depending on Israelites or Palestinians.
“While the Red Cross performs solemn official ceremonies when receiving the bodies of Israelite prisoners, it delivers the bodies of the Palestinian martyrs in blue bags that are thrown to trucks without the most basic elements of human dignity,” said the government’s head chief From Gaza, Ismail al-thawabta, on social networks.
For the Gaza Band authorities, “this flagrant discrimination in the treatment It reflects two weights and two measures ”and also“ exposes international incapacity to achieve justice and equity ”.
After more than 15 months of war, which made at least 48,208 dead and more than 111,000 injured, the conflict parties reached in mid-January a ceasefire agreement, which entered into force on 19 January and provided for the exchange of 33 Israelite hostages kept in captivity by Hamas by hundreds of Palestinians imprisoned in arrests of Israel.
