Late Twist Adds to Bibas Family Agony as Body Returned Is Not of Mother; IDF Calls It a ‘Violation of Utmost Severity’
The bodies of Shira Bibas’s children, Kfir, who was 9 months old when kidnapped, and Ariel, aged 4, are identified during an examination.
In a cruel twist to Thursday’s macabre handover of dead Hamas hostages, the terrorist organization has delivered to Israel the body of an unidentified person while contending it was that of Shiri Bibas, the mother of two toddlers who was kidnapped along with the children on October 7, 2023.
An examination at Israel’s national institute of forensic medicine determined that “the additional body received is not that of Shiri Bibas, and no match was found for any other hostage,” the Israel Defense Force said in a statement. “This is an anonymous, unidentified body.”
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