Daniel Hagari, the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) spokesperson, announced that the dead children returned Thursday to Israel from Gaza were beaten to death by terrorists.
“We can confirm that baby Kfir Bibas, aged just 10 months old, and his older brother Ariel, aged four, were both brutally murdered by terrorists while being held hostage in Gaza no later than November 2023,” the spokesperson said. “Contrary to Hamas’ lies, Ariel and Kfir were not killed in an airstrike. Ariel and Kfir Bibas were murdered by terrorists in cold blood. The terrorists did not shoot the two young boys. They killed them with their bare hands.”
BREAKING:
Spokesman of the Israeli Army Daniel Hagari just announced that the forensic examination of the bodies of 9-month-old Kfir Bibas and his 4-year-old brother Ariel were beaten to death by Hamas.
They weren’t killed in an airstrike, they were brutally murdered pic.twitter.com/YdcoAbFBZK
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) February 21, 2025
The two boys were taken hostage by Hamas along with their mother, Shiri and their father, Yarden, during the Oct. 7, 2023 terror attack against Israel. Yarden was released on Feb. 1. Hamas paraded the coffins of the dead children in a ceremony accompanied by a cheering crowd Thursday where they handed the remains of the hostages to the Red Cross.
They were expected to hand over the remains of Shiri as well but the body they handed over was not hers, the Institute of Forensic Medicine (IFM) said, The Jerusalem Post reported. The IFM and Israel Police jointly performed forensic analyses to identify the remains. Officials said the act violated the agreement between Israel and Hamas, adding that the organization was under an obligation to return the bodies under the ceasefire agreement that took effect Jan. 19 (RELATED: BBC Says It’s Really Sorry For Featuring Terrorist’s Son In Documentary, Swears It Was Accident)
“Not only did they kidnap the father, Yarden Bibas, the young mother, Shiri, and their two little babies. In an unspeakably cynical way, they did not return Shiri to her little children, the little angels, and they put the body of a Gazan woman in a coffin,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote on social media in Hebrew.
מדינת ישראל מרכינה ראש על שני ילדים קטנים, תינוקות רכים, אחים – אריאל וכפיר ביבס זכרונם לברכה, ועל עודד ליפשיץ זכרונו לברכה, ממייסדי קיבוץ ניר עוז.
שלושתם נרצחו באכזריות איומה בשבי החמאס בשבועות הראשונים של המלחמה.
האכזריות של מפלצות החמאס אינה יודעת שום גבול.
לא רק שהם חטפו… pic.twitter.com/MSglg9zNcO
— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) February 21, 2025
The IDF identified Oded Lifshitz, who was among the remains Hamas handed over Thursday, according to The Jerusalem Post.
This article was originally published at dailycaller.com
