Israel says the bodies of the youngest Hamas return to Israel – but their mother is not.

Hamas released the bodies of four Israeli hostages on Thursday, promoting four black coffins on the stage, and against the backdrop of the propaganda slogan, white missiles were scattered with red paint that read “They were bombed by Americans Kill”.

This may be one of the defining images of the Gaza Strip War, with four coffins sitting on an elevated platform in front of the smile illustrations of three members of the Bibas family and 84-year-old ODED LIFSHITZ.

Among the bodies believed to have been handed over by Hamas, are the bodies of Kefir and Ariel Bibas, the two youngest captured in the attack, which triggered Israel's military movement in the Gaza Strip.

The IDF said the bodies of the two children were later identified as those of Kefir and Ariel Bibas – but the bodies believed to be their mother Shiri were not actually her.

“This is a very serious violation of the Hamas terrorist group, and the agreement requires the return of four dead kidnappers,” the IDF said. “We ask Hamas to return to Shiri's home with all our kidnappers.”

The body handed over was the first to return under a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas. Lifshitz's family said Thursday that his body had been identified.

Each coffin also carries a small photo of one of the four hostages.

The hostages and missing families representing Hamas imprisoned families said earlier that Shiri Bibas's body was handed over along with her two children and Lifshitz's body.

The IDF said Ariel and Kfir Bibas were “incarcerated in November 2023 by terrorists,” and the family took away a month from their Kibbutz, Nir Oz. KFIR was exactly nine months old, and Ariel had four at the time of the kidnapping.

The IDF said the identification process determined that another agency was not Shiri Bibas, “For any other abductor, no match was found. This is an anonymous agency that was not identified.

The handover took place in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, where a large crowd gathered black militants, patrolling the area in black and camouflage uniforms. The coffins are displayed in front of a large banner showing the sarcastic sarcastic anti-Semitic feet of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and are flowing down his face with vampire teeth and blood.

“We bowed our heads for the huge losses of the four hostages,” Netanyahu, who responded to the release of the late hostages in an article on X late Thursday.

“The pain in our pain mixed with anger,” he said, adding that he planned to return the remaining hostages, “destroy the murderer and eliminate Hamas. ”

On the table with a camouflage cover and two Palestinian flags on the table, the coffin was taken into the white Red Cross vehicle and then driven to the IDF and the Israeli Security Agency.

Yarden Bibas, the father of the 35-year-old, was released on February 1 in the first phase of the ceasefire agreement. According to the hostages different from his wife and children, he was imprisoned and released.

While all other children's hostages were released in exchange for Palestinian prisoners in the weekly ceasefire in November 2023, the Bibas family never came out of Gaza.

In one of the last days of the brief pause of the fight, Hamas issued a statement claiming that Shiri Bibas and the children were killed in an Israeli air strike, although Israeli troops said it could not confirm the claim later and it would not be confirmed later. Fear of family. .

Gaza's Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya announced on Tuesday that the bodies of Shiri Bibas and two children will return this week.

He also announced that the remaining four living prisoners will be released on Saturday, besides two other people who have been detained in the Gaza Strip for about a decade.

The Israeli Prime Minister's Office confirmed that an agreement on the issuance had been reached during negotiations in Cairo last week, but avoided naming any hostages.

Israel has long been learning the fate of KFIR and Ariel Bibas. Hamas said in late 2023 that Shiri Bibas and his children were killed by Israeli bombing.

On Tuesday, the Bibas family said Hamas leaders declared the return of Shiri Bibas and the children “turbulent”.

“Our journey is not over until we get confirmation,” the family said in a statement.

The hostages and missing families forum also named the six living hostages released on Saturday: Eliya Cohen, Omer Shem Tov, Omer Wenkert, Tal Shoham, Hisham al-Sayed and Avera Mengistu.

“While we are very pleased with their homecoming, we are shocked by the news that the remains of four loved ones will return this Thursday,” it said in a statement Tuesday.

Cohen, 27, Shem Tov, 22, and Wenkert, 23, were kidnapped at Nova Music Festival, with an estimated 364 people killed. According to the group, Shoham, 40, was taken away from the Kibbutz Beeri community.

Civilians Al-Sayed and Mengistu were held in Gaza for about a decade after being kidnapped while crossing the border in 2015 and 2014, respectively.

According to Israeli officials, about 1,200 people were killed and 251 were arrested in the terrorist attack on October 7. According to the local Hamas-Operation Ministry of Operations, Israel subsequently killed more than 48,000 Palestinians and forced their population to die, according to the local Hamas-Operation Ministry of Operations.

If successful, Saturday's handover would mean four hostages, all of which are considered dead, and the group is still in Canada's 33 groups, planned to be released in the first phase of the ceasefire deal.

Negotiations in the second phase of the ceasefire agreement, originally scheduled to begin on February 4, will work to ensure the release of the remaining 64 hostages and oversee the government in post-war Gaza. The meeting is expected to begin in the coming days.

This article was originally published on nbcnews.com.