The radical Palestinian group Hamas said the body of Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas, who was killed in the Gaza Strip, has been handed over to the Red Cross.
A Hamas official confirmed this to the DPA on Friday.
The woman's deadly remains and the remains of her two children should return to Israel on Thursday.
However, the body of an unknown woman was found in the coffin handed over by Hamas to the Red Cross.
The terrorist group later admitted that they had made a mistake.
This exchange, whether intentional or accidental, triggered anger in Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned Hamas for not handing over Shiri's body and said the released body was the remains of Gaza residents.
Hamas flipped through the 32-year-old German-Israeli sons Ariel and Kefir ODED LIFSHITZ on Thursday.
Israeli forensic experts later determined that, as Hamas said, the remains in the fourth coffin did not belong to Shiri Bibas.
The Israeli military called it the “most seriousness” of an already fragile ceasefire agreement.
“The cruelty of the Hamas monsters is infinite,” Netanyahu said in a statement.
He added: “We will take the determination to bring Shiri home with all our hostages, both the dead and the dead, and make sure Hamas pays the full price for this cruel and vicious breach of the agreement.”
He also said Shiri, Ariel and Kfir were “in terrible and cruel murdered while in Hamas”.
Hamas claimed that they were killed in Israeli air strikes in the early days of the Gaza War, although no evidence was provided to support this.
Hamas spokesman Ismail al-Thawabta described the incident as a mistake, saying Shiri Bibas's body mixed with people who died when other buildings were hit and killed.
Netanyhau, he said, “is the one who is the whole responsibility of killing her and her children in a terrible and cruel way.”
On February 1, the father of Hamas' 34-year-old child, Yarden Bibas, was released. All four members of the family were kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel on October 7, 2023.
The hostages and missing families said that despite the agreement and our urgent hope, he did not return to Shiri's news “shocking and destruction”.
“For the world, we say: Don’t look away,” a statement said.
Hamas will be released by Hamas in the final round of releases on Saturday during the first six-week phase of the Ceasefire Agreement, which came into effect on January 19.
The final step in the first phase of the agreement will be the transfer of four more hostage agencies next week.
But the latest developments involving the Bibas family have doubts about the process.
In Berlin, the German government exhibited “incredible ghosts and incredible exclusion” when it handed over the remains of the Israeli hostages a day ago.
A spokesman for the Berlin Foreign Ministry said on Friday it was hard to imagine “the hell that family and relatives are now experiencing.”
Hamas set up a stage at the handover scene on Thursday, with many cheering onlookers gathering, uniformed masked and masked militants.
Four black coffins are shown on the stage, with the background depicting Netanyahu as a bleeding vampire wandering over an image of four hostages of the dead.
Israel closes major cross delivery
A Netanyahu spokesman said on Friday that Israel has closed the main border crossing points for the delivery of aid to the Gaza Strip, providing no reason.
“Kerem Shalom Crossing was closed today and no equipment has entered Gaza since yesterday,” spokesman Omer Dostri pointed out on X.
Israel's Palestinian agency Cogat also confirmed the closure during inquiry, but did not give any reason.
According to Hamas, about 10 container houses were brought into Gaza shortly before they were closed.
The delivery of these temporary houses for the approximately 2 million Garlanders living in tents and ruins is one of Hamas' main requirements for the continuation of the ceasefire and has been agreed with Gaza's state for the Israeli hostage exchange for imprisonment.
