Gaza: Israel accuses Hamas of having killed Bibas children and having substituted their mother’s body

The Hebrew state is plunged into dread. After the restitution of the bodies, Israel accused the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on Friday of killing the children Ariel and Kfir Bibas during their captivity in Gaza. He also accuses the Islamist movement of having given him the body of an unknown person in place of that of their mother Shiri Bibas.

“According to the assessment of the competent authorities and on the basis of available information and diagnostic indicators, Ariel and Kfir Bibas were brutally killed in November 2023 by Palestinian terrorists,” said the spokesman for the spokesman ‘Israeli army Avichay Adraee.

“An unidentified body” according to Israel

Hamas has always said thatiel and KFIR BIBAS, aged four and eight and a half months respectively during their kidnapping in Israel, had been killed in Israeli bombardments on Gaza. Kfir Bibas was the youngest of the 251 hostages kidnapped on October 7, 2023. The father of the two children, aged 35, was released on February 1.

The remains of four people were given Thursday by Hamas to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and then to the Israeli army. The fourth body is that of Oded Lifshitz, a 83 -year -old former journalist on the day of his capture during the attack on Hamas against Israeli territory on October 7, 2023.

In Khan Younès, in the south of the Gaza Strip, armed fighters exhibited Thursday morning on a podium four black coffins each carrying the photo of one of the hostages. Above, a poster where Benyamin Netanyahu appeared with his face stammered with blood, flanked by vampire teeth.

The country is “crazy about rage”

This staging was criticized in both Israel and abroad. The Israeli Prime Minister said the country was “crazy about rage”, the UN called it “abject and cruel” and Berlin denounced “barely bearable images”.

Before Israel accuses Hamas for having given him an unidentified body instead of that of Shiri Bibas, thousands of people have frozen in the Place des Otages in Tel Aviv, head down, serious look, Hands entwined or tightening posters, observing a minute of silence during a candle vigil in tribute to dead hostages.

This is the first time that Hamas has given hostage bodies since its attack on October 7. Hamas on Saturday is to release six living hostages against Palestinian prisoners. The agreement provides, by the end of its first phase on March 1, the delivery to Israel of a total of 33 hostages, including eight dead, in exchange for that of 1,900 Palestinians held by Israel.