There was an outpouring of concern following the merciless launch ceremony on Thursday by which Hamas paraded the coffins of Israeli hostages on a stage adorned with pretend bombs and Hamas propaganda, together with a disturbing mural depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a vampire consuming the blood of the Israeli hostages.
That outrage intensified after findings confirmed that the hostages had been murdered in captivity and never killed in an Israeli airstrike, as Hamas had claimed.
The post-mortem of the our bodies additionally confirmed that the physique within the coffin listed as Shiri Bibas, spouse of launched hostage Yarden Bibas, and mom of the 2 murdered boys Ariel and Kfir Bibas, was not Shiri, and in reality, didn’t match any of the Israeli hostages taken.
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Sources who handled the identification of the our bodies advised Hebrew media that intelligence and forensic findings indicated that the terrorists murdered Ariel and Kfir in captivity in early November 2023, a few month after they have been kidnapped.
The IDF launched a press release saying it had “forensic and intelligence proof that they have been brutally murdered,” thus contradicting the Hamas declare that Kfir and Ariel Bibas have been killed in an air power assault.”
Public broadcaster Kan 11 additionally ran a report stating that Hamas had positioned extra propaganda materials contained in the coffins.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted a message to X following the post-mortem report that the physique of Shiri was not returned, however that of one other girl.
“The State of Israel bows its head to 2 young children, tender infants, brothers — Ariel and Kfir Bibas, might their reminiscence be blessed, and to Oded Lipshitz, might his reminiscence be blessed, one of many founders of Kibbutz Nir Oz,” Netanyahu wrote. “All three have been murdered with horrible cruelty in Hamas captivity within the first weeks of the struggle.”
“The cruelty of the Hamas monsters is aware of no bounds,” he continued. “Not solely did they kidnap the daddy, Yarden Bibas, the younger mom, Shiri, and their two small infants. In an unspeakably cynical method, they didn’t return Shiri beside her little kids, the little angels, however they put the physique of a Gazan girl in a coffin.”
Netanyahu promised that Israel would “work resolutely to carry Shiri dwelling along with all our abductees — each residing and useless — and make sure that Hamas pays the total value for this merciless and evil violation of the settlement.”
The prime minister ended by saying, “Might God avenge their blood. And we will even avenge them.”
German Ambassador to Israel Steffen Seibert posted a message after the announcement, calling Hamas “cruel terrorists” and “merciless liars.”
United Nations Secretary-Basic António Guterres launched a uncommon assertion condemning Hamas by identify, following the discharge of the hostage stays.
“I condemn the parading of our bodies and displaying of the coffins of the deceased Israeli hostages by Hamas on Thursday,” Guterres mentioned. “Beneath worldwide legislation, any handover of the stays of the deceased should adjust to the prohibition of merciless, inhuman or degrading therapy, making certain respect for the dignity of the deceased and their households.”
Israel’s Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon demanded a condemnation of the general public show and the failure to launch the physique of Shiri.
“The UN Secretary-Basic, the Safety Council and the Basic Meeting can’t proceed to stay silent within the face of Hamas’s barbarity. The State of Israel calls for a transparent and unequivocal condemnation of this heinous crime, and a transparent and a right away demand for the return of Shiri to her household. Historical past will bear in mind properly who stood by and remained silent whereas Hamas trampled on probably the most primary ideas of humanity,” Danon wrote in a press release on X.
In the meantime, Argentine President Javier Milei declared two days of nationwide mourning in Argentina for Ariel and Kfir Bibas, each of whom held joint Israeli-Argentinian citizenship.
“The Workplace of the President expresses its strongest condemnation of the terrorist group Hamas after the affirmation of the homicide of the youngsters of the Israeli-Argentine Bibas household,” Milei’s workplace introduced. “The President of the Nation will decree Nationwide Mourning for two days in reminiscence of Ariel and Kfir Bibas, and expresses on behalf of the Argentine individuals his condolences to the household, particularly to Yarden Bibas, father of the youngsters, who after struggling the torment of being kidnapped for 484 days as we speak faces his worst nightmare.”
Milei additionally known as for the instant launch of the remaining hostages.
Adam Boehler, who serves as america envoy for hostages, known as the discharge of an unidentified physique rather than Shiri “horrific,” and warned that the group will face penalties.
“If I have been them, I’d launch everyone or they’ll face complete annihilation,” Boehler advised CNN on Thursday.
United Nations human rights chief Austrian Volker Turk additionally slammed the “degrading therapy of the hostage stays.
“Beneath worldwide legislation, any handover of the stays of the deceased should adjust to the prohibition of merciless, inhuman or degrading therapy, making certain respect for the dignity of the deceased and their households,” Turk mentioned in a press release.
The horrific show of the hostage coffins has even drawn condemnation from the Arab world. Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti, Abdul Aziz Al-Sheikh, additionally condemned the present by Hamas, in response to a JFeed report.
“What we noticed as we speak in Gaza is a shame to Islam, an act of blasphemy in opposition to Allah, and a sin that doesn’t signify the followers of the Prophet, peace be upon him, or the honorable faith of Islam,” Al-Sheikh mentioned in a press release.
U.S. Congresswoman Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., President Trump’s decide for America’s Ambassador to the U.N., mentioned the show proved Israel’s struggle is certainly one of good versus evil:
“As we study extra in regards to the tragic fates and devastating lack of life of those harmless victims, we’re reminded that this should not be Israel’s battle alone however a battle between good and evil, civilization and barbarity,” Stefanik wrote on X. “America stands steadfast in help of Israel and the Jewish individuals. And we won’t relaxation till each hostage is introduced dwelling.”
Former Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Gilad Erdan mentioned the cruelty of Hamas confirmed the necessity for implementing Trump’s Gaza proposal.
“Even in Nazi Germany, there have been Germans who saved Jews,” Erdan wrote to X. “Not a single Gazan saved a single hostage.”
“Many, many ‘harmless’ Gazans took half within the kidnapping & homicide and lots of extra got here out as we speak and on October seventh to have fun the return of Jewish infants in coffins. Hamas have to be eradicated. Totally,” Erdan continued. “Gaza have to be denazified and demilitarized. President Donald Trump’s imaginative and prescient have to be realized.”
This text was initially printed by All Israel Information.
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