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The Israeli army said Friday that he is reviewing the reports that Hamas has delivered to the Red Cross a body that is said to be that of the shiri bibas hostages, a day after Israel received four bodies of hostages in captive in Gaza that It included an unidentified woman.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would make Hamas pay for not releasing Bibas body as agreed.
“We will act with determination to bring Shiri home along with all our hostages, both living and dead, and we will make sure that Hamas pays the full price for this cruel and evil violation of the agreement,” he said in a video statement on Friday.
The statement came after Israeli specialists said that one of the four bodies delivered by Hamas on Thursday was an unidentified woman and not Shiri Bibas, whose two children, Kfir and Ariel were delivered and identified.
Netanyahu accused Hamas of acting “in an indescribably cynical” way by placing a gaza’s body in the cof Hamas against Israel. October 7, 2023.
The Israeli leader did not give details about a possible response, but the incident underlined the fragility of the high fire agreement reached with the support of the United States and with the help of the mediators of Qatar and Egyptians last month.
6 hostages to be released, says Hamas
Ismail Al-Thawabta, director of the Gaza Government Media Office, led by Hamas, said the remains of Shiri Bibas seem to have mixed with other human remains after being buried in the rubble of a building destroyed in an Israeli air attack .
Hamas said in November 2023 that the children and their mother had been killed in an Israeli air attack.
However, the Israeli army said that intelligence evaluations and forensic analysis of Bibas children indicated that they were deliberately killed by their captors. Chief military spokesman Daniel Hagari said the children were killed by the militants “with their naked hands”, but did not give details.
The United Nations Human Rights Office said it had no information about the death of hostages and requested effective investigation into the causes of their deaths.
“The return of the deceased’s remains is a basic humanitarian objective,” the office said.
Look | The Israelis gather in Tel Aviv to receive bodies of 4 in Gaza in Gaza:
The Israelis joined in Tel Aviv on Thursday when the bodies of four hostages, including two children, were returned to Israel de Gaza, in what a man described as the ‘saddest day’ from the mortal October 7, 2023, attacks of Hamas militants.
It is not clear if the confusion will endanger the beginning of the negotiations for a second phase of the high fire, which was expected in the next few days.
According to Hamas, six live hostages must be released in exchange for 602 Palestinian prisoners and detainees, and the beginning of the negotiations for a second phase of the high fire in the next few days is expected.
“Hamas must return to the hostages as agreed in the Alto El Fuego: the living and the deceased,” said Israeli military spokesman No Shoshani in a statement about X. “They have to bring Shiri back and have to free the Six living hostages tomorrow “
The armed wing of the militant group Hamas said it will release the Israeli hostages Eliya Cohen, Omer Shem Tov, Tal Shoham, Omer Wenkert, Hisham al-Sayed and Avera Mengisto on Saturday.
Hisham al-Sayed and Avera Mengisto are civilians, who entered Gaza a decade ago and have been held there since then.
Red Cross, group of hostage families condemn confusion
The Red Cross International Committee told Reuters on Friday that he was “worried and dissatisfied” about the way in Hamas’s hostage release operations took place.
“The ICRC does not participate in the classification, detection or examination of the deceased: this is the responsibility of the parties to the conflict,” he said in a statement on Friday, while expressing concern that the releases have not been made privately and In a dignified way.
The fact of not returning to Shiri Bibas, and the staging public delivery of the four coffins on Thursday caused indignation in Israel.
“It’s as if they made us a joke,” said Ilana Caspi, 75. “We are very pain and this is even more. It’s as if you had a blow again, another and another. It’s really terrible.”
One of the main groups that represent hostage families said they were “horrified and devastated” by the news that Shiri Bibas had not been returned, but asked that the high fire continue to bring all 70 hostages still In Gaza.
“Save them from this nightmare,” said the hostages and the missing families forum in a statement.
As the tension on the high Gaza’s fire increased, Netanyahu ordered the military to intensify operations in another Palestinian territory, the West Bank occupied by Israel, after several explosions exploited the empty unemployed buses in their deposits near Tel Aviv .
No victims were reported, but the explosions were a reminder of the suicidal attack campaign against public transport that killed hundreds of Israeli civilians during the second intifada in the early 2000s.
