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Israel said that Hamas had raped the fire a high after forensic evidence discovered that the fourth body released Thursday was not from an Israeli hostage, but an “anonymous and unidentified body.”
Hamas had supposed to have delivered the remains of four Israeli hostages, including two children, in a gloomy exchange that initially pointed out the progress for the high fire agreement.
The Israeli army quickly confirmed that one of the bodies was that of the peace activist Oded Lifschitz, who was 83 years old when he was taken as a hostage.
But early Friday morning, the military said that although he had confirmed that two of the other coffins contained the remains of two brothers: Kfir, a baby, and Ariel, 4, at the time of his kidnapping, the last Body was not that of his mother Shiri Bibas, then 32.
“This is a rape of the maximum severity by the Hamas terrorist organization, which is obliged to return to four deceased hostages,” the Israel’s defense forces said. “We demand that Hamas return to Shiri home along with all our hostages.”
The International Red Cross Committee had transported the four early coffins in the morning from Gaza, but the Bibas family, in particular, had requested that the media do not go to conclusions about the fate of their loved ones until the army was You have done with your forensic tests.
The revelation that Hamas could have changed the remains of a hostage with an unknown body will emphasize a fragile fire.
As the bodies were taken for identification, the president of Israel, Isaac Herzog, begged families already dead for forgiveness.
“I lean my head and ask forgiveness,” he said. “Sorry for not protecting you on that terrible day. Sorry for not taking home safely. “
Israel is supposed to release hundreds more Palestinian prisoners in return as required by the high fire agreement.
Hamas has pledged to publish six live hostages earlier than planned on Saturday, hoping to reinforce negotiations aimed at converting the high temporal fire into a lasting truce. Dozens of hostages, alive and dead, remain captive in Gaza.
In Israel, the capture of the Bibas family, the father of the children was released alive in February in the first stage of exchanges, has become a symbol of Hamas’ brutality in the attack of October 7, 2023 that triggered The war in Gaza.
They are also emblematic of the failures of the Israeli army that day, and the army could not reach Nir Oz Kibbutz until long after Hamas fighters had escaped back to Gaza with 80 hostages, having killed dozens in the remote town.
In a propaganda video released by Hamas, Shiri took the children in their arms while the armed fighters took them. Photos of smiling and red -haired children have become omnipresent in Israeli posters that demand the release of hostages.
Circumstances around Bibas’s deaths remain uncertain. Hamas has said they were killed in an Israeli air strike, without providing evidence.
The militant group repeated that statement on Thursday, delivering the bodies to the Red Cross under a signal that blamed the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and “missiles of the Zionist combat airplanes” for their deaths.
The IDF had not commented on their case until Friday, when he said that the two children and Lifschitz “were brutally killed by captivity terrorists.”
Lifschitz and his wife, andocheved, were also taken from their homes near the Bibas family. YocheBed was released 16 days after the war.
They have informed a handful of families that their loved ones may have been inadvertently killed by their bombing of Gaza, according to interviews in the Israeli media.
Gaza officials estimate that about 50,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed by the Israeli assault, which has destroyed the majority of the besieged enclave. Some 1,200 people died in Israel in the cross -border raid of Hamas and about 250 were taken as hostages, according to Israeli officials.
The launch of Thursday was the first of the deceased hostages and arrived in the fifth week of a high six weeks. Red Cross.
The vast majority of the Palestinians had been arrested in Israel without trial, while dozens fulfilled life imprisonment after being sentenced in military prisons for killing the Israelis.
After abruptly controlling Gaza’s aid during the 15 months of war, the Israel Army has allowed thousands of trucks with humanitarian aid to Gaza since the high fire entered into force, including a small amount of heavy machinery and houses Mobile from this week.
Negotiations between Israel and Hamas aimed at ensuring a lasting truce have begun in Cairo, mediated by Egypt, Qatar and the United States. But an agreement would require Israel to withdraw his army from Gaza and Hamas to free the remaining 60 hostages, many of whom fear dead.
The ruling coalition of Netanyahu depends on the support of a political party of the extreme right that is bitterly opposed to the high fire and has promised to resume the assault on Hamas.
The militant group seemed to threaten living hostages during Thursday’s delivery, showing a sign that said: “The return of the war = the return of their prisoners in coffins.”
It is known that Hamas executed at least six prisoners last year after suspecting an Israeli rescue operation in the tunnels where they were retained.
The IDF said that at that time not such an operation was ongoing and that it had stumbled with the recently killed hostages in a regular patrol.
