Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says Hamas will pay for not returning to Shiri Bibas
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that Israel will pay for failing to release the hostage Shiri Bibas' body.
“We will take the determination to bring Shiri home with all our hostages, whether the dead and the dead, and make sure Hamas pays full price for this cruel and evil violation of the agreement,” he said in a video statement. .”
The statement was published in Israeli experts said one of the four bodies handed over by Hamas on Thursday was an unidentified woman, not Shiri Bibas, whose two sons, Kfir and Ariel, were handed over and confirmed.
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Netanyahu did not provide details about the Israeli response, but the incident highlighted the vulnerability of the ceasefire agreement with our support and the help of Katari and Egyptian mediators last month.
Hamas said the six hostages were released.
Ismail Al-Thawabta, director of the Hamas-Run Gaza government media office, said Shiri Bibas's remains appear to be mixed with other human remains as buried in the rubble of buildings destroyed in Israeli air strikes.
Hamas said in November 2023 that the child and their mother were killed in an Israeli air strike. The Israeli military said intelligence assessments and forensic analysis of Bath's children's bodies showed that they were intentionally killed by the kidnappers.
Israelis gathered together in Tel Aviv on Thursday, with the bodies of four hostages (including two children) returning to Israel from Gaza, a man described as having been deadly attacked by Hamas militants on October 7, 2023 The “the most sad day”. .
It is not clear whether the mixing will endanger the start of negotiations in the second phase of the ceasefire, which is expected in the coming days.
Hamas said six hostages were planned to be released just as planned on Saturday.
The armed wing of the militant group Hamas said it will release 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 were civilians who entered Gaza ten years ago and have been incarcerated ever since.
Red Cross, hostage family group condemns mixed
The Red Cross told Reuters on Friday that the way Hamas hostage releases was “focused and dissatisfied”.
“The ICRC is not involved in classification, screening or checking the responsibility of the deceased,” it said in a statement on Friday.
The failure to return to Shiri Bibas, and the public handover of four coffins on Thursday, sparked anger in Israel.
“It's like they made a joke,” said Ilana Caspi, 75. “We're so sad, that's even more. It's like you punch again, another one again One. It's really bad.”
One of the main groups representing the hostage family said they had not been returned to Shiri Bibas' body but called for a ceasefire to bring back all 70 hostages still in Gaza.
“Save them out of this nightmare,” the Hostages and Missing Family Forum said in a statement.
As tensions in the Gaza ceasefire have intensified, Netanyahu ordered the Israeli military to step up operations in another Palestinian territory in the Palestinian region, after many explosions destroyed buses in warehouses near Tel Aviv.
No casualties, but the explosion reminded of suicide attacks on public transport, killing hundreds of Israeli civilians in the second uprising in the early 2000s.
