The remains of the youngest and one of the oldest captives seized by Hamas during the attack that ignited the war in the Gaza Strip are expected to be returned on Thursday, an Israeli official said Wednesday.

The handover, part of the ceasefire agreement that has paused the fighting in Gaza, will include the bodies of a mother and her two young children whose fate was uncertain and a retired journalist in his 80s, said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.

It was the first Israeli confirmation that the bodies of Ariel and Kfir Bibas, who were 4 years old and 9 months old when they were taken captive on Oct. 7, 2023, were being returned along with their mother Shiri. A grassroots forum representing hostage families also confirmed the names.

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    Dear imperial propagandist… It’s worth noting that these people were murdered by zionists. Please fuck off with the misleading headlines.

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      21 hours ago

      The article in fact says this:

      Hamas has said all four were killed in Israeli airstrikes while Israel had previously said it had ”grave concern” for the lives of the Bibas family.

      Nowhere in the headline does it say who or what killed them, so you were never misled. It is you yourself who added new meaning to the headline by asserting without basis that it suggests Hamas was responsible. And you ended up having a strong emotional reaction to that meaning you invented.

      If you have read the article past the headline before engaging in ad hominem, you would’ve known that the writer makes clear who said what on the responsibility for the deaths.

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      2 days ago

      I mean Hamas wrote this propaganda. How young were the children they snatched? This more than anything shows they wanted everything that followed.

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          4 hours ago

          In the English language, you can use words such as “write” literally or figuratively. In this context, it seemed obvious to me I was not suggesting that Hamas had bought a publishing company.