Macabre Coffin Handover in Gaza Could Alter War’s ‘Day-After’ Strategy
Will shockwaves in Israel and around the world over the cruelty involved in Hamas’s coffin transfer of four murdered hostages change strategy over the Gaza war’s end-game, and convince skeptics of the need to eliminate Hamas?

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The two Bibas babies who were kidnapped by Hamas with their mother on October 7, 2023, became a global symbol of the war. On Thursday, the bodies of Shiri Bibas and her boys — Ariel, who was 4 when abducted, and Kfir, who was 9 months old — were returned to Israel. Alongside was the coffin containing 83-year-old Oded Lifshitz.
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