Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that Israel would make Hamas pay on Friday for omitting the body of the hostages Shiri Bibas, as agreed.
“We will act with determination to bring Shiri home to home with all our hostages – both alive and dead – and to make sure that Hamas pays the high price of this cruel and perverse violation of the agreement,” -It declared in a press release.
The declaration made after Israeli specialists said that one of the four bodies given by Hamas on Thursday was an unidentified woman and not Shiri Bibas, whose two sons, KFIR and Ariel were delivered and identified.
Netanyahu accused Hamas of acting “in an indescribable cynical” manner by placing the body of a woman Gaza in the coffin instead of Shiri Bibas, who was kidnapped with her two sons and her husband, Yarden, when of the attack on Hamas on Israel in October.
Netanyahu gave no details on a possible Israeli response, but the incident underlined the fragility of the ceasefire agreement reached with the support of us and with the help of the Qatari and Egyptian mediators last month .
6 hostages to be released, Hamas says
Ismail Al-Thawabta, director of the Gaza Government Media Office managed by Hamas, said the remains of Shiri Bibas seem to have been mixed with other human remains after being buried in the rubble of a building destroyed in An Israeli air strike.
Hamas said in November 2023 that the children and their mother had been killed in an Israeli air strike. The Israeli army said that intelligence assessments and the medico-legal analysis of Bibas’ children have indicated that they had been deliberately killed by their kidnappers.
The Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv on Thursday while the bodies of four hostages – including two children – were returned to Israel of Gaza, in what a man described as the “saddest day” since the mortal of 7 October 2023, attack by Hamas activists.
It is not clear if the mixture will compromise the start of the negotiations for a second phase of the ceasefire, which was expected in the coming days.
Hamas said that he had planned to publish six hostages, all alive, as originally planned for Saturday.
The army wing of the militant group Hamas said that it would release the Israeli hostages Eliya Cohen, Omer Shem Tov, Tal Shoham, Omer Wenkert, Hisham Al-Sayed and Avera Mengisto on Saturday.
Hisham al-Sayed and Avera Mengisto are civilians, who entered Gaza a decade ago and have been held there since.
Red cross, group of hostage families condemns the mixture
On Friday, the Red Cross told Reuters that he was “worried and dissatisfied” by the way in which Hamas hostage release operations had taken place.
“The ICRC does not participate in sorting, screening or examining the deceased-it is the responsibility of the parties to the conflict,” he said in a statement on Friday, while expressing that the versions had not been carried out in private and in a worthy way.
The fact of not returning Shiri Bibas and the public transfer staged of the four coffins on Thursday caused indignation in Israel.
“It’s as if they were making a joke of us,” said Ilana Caspi, 75. “We are so in sorrow and it’s even more. It’s like making a punch, another and another. It’s really terrible.”
One of the main groups representing hostage families said they were “horrified and devastated” by the news that Shiri Bibas’s body had not been returned, but called the ceasefire to continue continuing to bring back every 70 hostages again to Gaza.
“Save them from this nightmare,” said the hostage forum and families missing in a press release.
While the tension on the ceasefire of Gaza increased, Netanyahu ordered the Israeli army to intensify operations in another Palestinian territory, the occupied West Bank, after a certain number of explosions have exploded Buses standing in their deposits near Tel Aviv.
No victim has been reported, but the explosions recalled the campaign of suicide attacks on public transport that killed hundreds of Israeli civilians during the second intifada in the early 2000s.
