In a video released by Hamas, Yarden Bibas, husband of Shiri and father of Gaza hostages Kfir (10 months) and Ariel (4 years), who the militiamen believe died in an Israeli raid, speaks directly to the Prime Minister: “Did you?” bombarded my family. It was all I had in my life, I beg you to take her home to bury her in Israel.
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“Bibi, you bombed my family. That’s all I had in my life,” take her “home to be buried in Israel, I beg you.” In a video released by Hamas, Yarden Bibas, husband of Shiri and father of the hostages, addresses the issue Kfir (10 months) and Ariel (4 years) in Gaza, who the militiamen believe died in an Israeli raid, directly to Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu. The footage is preceded by a statement from Hamas that “detainee Yarden Bibas learned that enemy aircraft killed his wife and two children. Hamas has offered to return their bodies to Israel, but is currently refusing to receive them.” The man, hostage in Gaza, stares into the room. With a black T-shirt and a full beard, he sits in a darkened and unrecognizable environment. On one side there is a superimposed photo of his wife and children (ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR: LIVE UPDATES – THE SPECIAL).
The history
Yesterday, in a few seconds of video recorded by the body cameras of Hamas militants, the drama of Shiri Bibas was shown as she held her two red-haired children in her arms and tried to protect them from the armed men surrounding her. The family was kidnapped on October 7th in Kibutz Nir Oz. According to Hamas, they have now died under the bombs that Israel dropped on the Gaza Strip. The three “were killed in an Israeli army bombing,” is the meager statement used by the Ezzedin Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing, to announce the news. To date there has been no news of Father Yarden, who was also kidnapped and is being held hostage in Gaza. Netanyahu spoke to members of the Bibas family yesterday, Haaretz reports, and reiterated that an investigation by security forces was underway. “I don’t know if this is true or not,” he told his former War Cabinet minister Benny Gantz, “but it is part of a psychological war that our enemies are waging.”
