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An entire people apologizes to the children, the mother, the father, the grandfather who were taken hostage on October 7, 2023 by the Kibbutzim of the South Israel, were brutally tortured and murdered by Hamas terrorists, who were returned in coffins and buried last week.
The country's first citizen, President of the Republic Yitzhak Herzog, apologized to the families of the dead hostages because the state proved incapable of protecting them and did not have time to release them alive. The Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, General Archie Alevi, took responsibility for the failure of the army and all intelligence services for the failure to protect Israeli citizens.
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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.
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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.