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The handover from Hamas to Israel, last Thursday, of four bodies, was the sealing of the barbarity displayed on October 7, 2023. The coffins containing the bodies of the two dead children, Ariel and Kfir Bibas, four years and 8½ months old when they were abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz, the woman Hamas claims to be their mother but Israel does not identify, saying she is the body of another, unknown woman, and Oded Lifsitz, 83 years old the day she was abducted, were displayed on a platform next to armed men in hoods in a setting dominated by the banner of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was depicted as a vampire.
More: ILIAS KANELIS, The spectacle of barbarity, TA NEA 22.2.2025
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Six Israeli hostages held by Hamas – Tal Shoham, Eliya Cohen, Omer Shem Tov, Omer Wenkert, Abera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed – who were being held in Gaza were released on Saturday, 22.2.2025 (HERE), within the framework of the Israel-Hamas agreement for the release of hostages and the ceasefire HEREShoham, Cohen, Shem Tov, and Wenker were kidnapped on October 7, 2023, while Mengistu and al-Sayed were held captive for more than a decade.
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Written by Dorella Kamhi
21/02/2025 09:55
Hamas's announcement that on Thursday, February 20, they would return the bodies of Kfir, Ariel, and their mother Shiri Bibas was like an electric shock. The hope that this might be yet another psychological torture for the hostages' relatives was extinguished yesterday. The tragic epilogue of the Bibas family was the one we all suspected but were afraid to admit.
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After 503 days of anguish and uncertainty for families and all of Israeli society, on Thursday morning, 20.2.25, Hamas handed over the bodies of four Israeli hostages, stating that they were 33-year-old mother Siri Bibas and her two young children, Kfir - who was 9 months old when she was kidnapped - and Ariel, 4 years old, as well as 84-year-old retired journalist Oded Lifsitz (HERE). All four had been kidnapped by Hamas terrorists during the attack on Kibbutz Nir Oz, on 7.10.2023, and taken to Gaza.
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Kfir Bibas was 9 months old and his older brother, Ariel, 4 years old when they were kidnapped by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, with their mother, Shiri, holding them tightly in her arms. Oded Lifshitz was 84, a retired journalist and peace activist.
Today, the 4 hostages are returning, not to live, but to be buried in the land of Israel. The Israeli citizens, after continuing to hope for 503 days, are faced with the saddest picture of their own people.
An entire country was shocked on 7.10.23 by the photo of Shiri Bibas (32) hugging her two red-haired sons, 9-month-old Kfir and 4-year-old Ariel, as they were surrounded in Kibbutz Nir Oz by Hamas terrorists who were leading them to captivity in Gaza. Oded Lifshitz was kidnapped from his home in Kibbutz Nir Oz.
The heart of a society today is shattered when the news is confirmed that a mother with her two children and an elderly man were kidnapped, held, tortured and murdered by cruel terrorists. A society that stands united, respectfully in front of the Israeli flag-draped coffins of its own children. Our own children!!!
Athens, 20 February 2025
Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece