Jerusalem:
Israel mentioned Friday that one of many 4 our bodies returned from Gaza will not be hostage Shiri Bibas, as claimed by Hamas, accusing Palestinian “terrorists” of killing her two younger boys.
The Israeli navy mentioned it had recognized the stays of Ariel and Kfir, Shiri’s two sons handed over by the militant group as a part of hostage-prisoner swap.
“Throughout the diagnostic course of, it was discovered that the opposite physique handed over doesn’t belong to Shiri Bibas and doesn’t match another kidnapped people,” navy spokesman Avichay Adraee mentioned on Telegram.
“We demand Hamas return Shiri Bibas together with all of the abductees,” he added.
Adraee mentioned Israel had concluded her two sons had been killed by Palestinian “terrorists” in Gaza, contradicting Hamas’s declare that they had been killed in an Israeli air strike early within the struggle.
“Based on the evaluation of the related authorities and based mostly on accessible intelligence and diagnostic indicators, Ariel and Kfir Bibas had been brutally killed in captivity in November 2023 by Palestinian terrorists,” Adraee mentioned.
On Thursday, Hamas handed over what it claimed had been the stays of Shiri, Kfir and Ariel Bibas, who for a lot of Israelis had come to symbolise the hostages’ ordeal since their abduction on October 7, 2023.
Hamas additionally handed over the physique of a fourth hostage, Oded Lifshitz, a veteran journalist and long-time defender of Palestinian rights.
It was the primary handover of Israeli our bodies below the delicate ceasefire within the Gaza Strip.
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