2023-11-30 01:57:03
The Israeli army indicated this Wednesday that it is investigating a report from the military wing of Hamas about the death in Gaza of a 10-month-old baby, his 4-year-old brother and his mother, who were on the list of hostages captured on October 7.
The army indicated in a statement that it is “verifying the veracity of the information” and that its representatives have “spoke with the Bibas family.”
“The responsibility for the safety of all hostages in the Gaza Strip lies with Hamas, which endangers the lives of all hostages, among whom there are nine children,” the army added.
The Ezzedine al Qasam brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian movement, announced in a statement on Wednesday the death of Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas, “in a bombing in the Gaza Strip” by Israeli forces.
The Islamic Jihad, an Islamist movement allied with Hamas that is holding some hostages in Gaza, had previously reported the death of Hanna Katzir, a 76-year-old hostage, but the woman was freed on November 24, the first day of the truce agreed between Hamas and Israel.
The images of the kidnapping in the Nir Oz kibbutz of the Bibas family (the father, the mother and the two children) became one of the symbols of the violence of October 7 in Israel.
In them you can see the mother, Shiri, with a distraught face, carrying her two children, Kfir, 9 months old at the time, and Ariel, 4 years old, wrapped in a blanket. Around the same time, Hamas gunmen took his father, Yarden, with his bloodied head, towards Gaza.
Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari recently indicated that the four are kidnapped by a Palestinian group other than Hamas.
“Hamas took them and Hamas must now bring them back, they are responsible for their health and their freedom is directly in the hands of Hamas,” Afri Bibas-Levy, Yarden’s sister, told the AFP news agency on Tuesday. Shiri’s sister, Dana Siton, told AFP that “every day that passes exposes them to danger.”
About 400 people lived in Kibbutz Nir Oz. On October 7, thirty-five were murdered and 80 kidnapped: among them, 31 have been released so far.
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