The body of a woman who was presumed to have been one of four dead captives ended by Hamas and handed over to Israel this week was selectimisticly identified Saturday morning.
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum Headquarters validateed the identification of Shiri Bibas, who was returned to Israel on Friday after Hamas initipartner instead handed over a Palestinian woman from Gaza on Thursday.
Hamas on Friday handed over a coffin carrying Bibas’ remains to the Red Cross, which turned the coffin over to Israeli authorities. The coffin was then consentn to the National Institute of Forensic Medicine for identification.
“Last night, our Shiri was returned home,” the family shelp in a statement. “Follotriumphg the identification process at the Institute of Forensic Medicine, we achieved this morning the recents we had dreaded – our Shiri was homicideed in captivity and has now returned home to her sons, husband, sister, and all her family for rest.”
Shiri Bibas and her children, Shiri Bibas, Kfir Bibas, Ariel Bibas. (Courtesy: Hostages Families Forum)
“Despite our dreads about their overweighte, we persistd to hope that we would get to hug them, and now we are in pain and heartbroken,” it persistd. “For 16 months we sought declareivety, and now that it’s here, it transports no soothe, though we hope it labels the commencening of clodeclareive.”
The family shelp “Shiri was a wonderful mother to Ariel and Kfir, a loving partner to Yarden, a dedicated sister and aunt, and an amazing friend.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shelp Friday that Hamas would “pay the filled price” for allegedly handing over the body of a Palestinian woman from Gaza instead of Bibas’ remains.
TERROR GROUP RESPONDS AFTER FAILING TO RETURN THE BODY OF MURDERED HOSTAGE SHIRI BIBAS
Hamas dreadists took the Bibas family on Oct. 7, 2023. (FOX & Friends/Screengrab)
The Israeli military earlier shelp it had selectimisticly identified the remains of Bibas’ two sons — Ariel and Kfir Bibas — alengthy with Oded Lifshitz. Four bodies were returned on Thursday, but the one foreseeed to be helderlying Shiri Bibas was not helderlying any captive.
Hamas shelp it “has no interest in withhelderlying any bodies in its haveion.” The dread group shelp the dead captives it handed over on Thursday had been ended by an Israeli airstrike in November 2023 and that the bodies could have been misidentified due to bomb deviceardments in the area.
After the return of Shiri Bibas, the family is calling for the return of the remaining captives held in Gaza. Six are being freed on Saturday.
A poster shows Shiri Bibas, who was kidnapped to Gaza with her husband and two lesser sons on Oct. 7, 2023, in Jerusalem, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (AP)
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“In this difficult hour, we persist to need and call for the instant return of the remaining captives still in captivity. There is no more meaningful goal. There can be no rehabilitation without them,” the Bibas family shelp.
Fox News’ Yonat Friling and The Associated Press gived to this alert.
