Six More Hostages Released As Forensics Show Shiri Bibas “Brutally Murdered” In Captivity
Hamas releases six living hostages, including two languishing in Gaza captivity for over a decade
Hamas terrorists “brutally murdered” Shiri Bibas along with her two young boys, Israeli forensic experts confirmed.
“According to assessments by Israeli officials issued after the body had been identified, Shiri was “brutally” murdered along with her two boys, Ariel, 4, and baby Kfir, nine months, in November 2023,” The Times of Israel reported Saturday.
The examination was conducted after Gaza-based terrorist group was forced to release Shiri’s actual remains following its deceitful handing over of the body of an unidentified Palestinian woman in a bid to hide the crime. Hamas also tried to cover up the heinous act by mutilating the bodies of Shiri and her two little children, and claiming that they had been killed in an Israeli airstrike.
“The body of Shiri Bibas was returned to Israel from Gaza on Friday night, the Hostage and Missing Families Forum announced Saturday,” the Jerusalem Post reported. “The L. Greenberg Institute of Forensic Medicine at Abu Kabir confirmed that the remains transferred to Israel on Friday night belong to Shiri Bibas, following extensive testing.”
Hamas terrorists murdered Shiri and her two little boys nearly two months after they were kidnapped from their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023. Autopsies carried out on Ariel and Kfir Bibas’ remains showed that they were murdered by the terrorists “with their bare hands.”
It's 5:04 AM in Israel, and it has just been officially announced that Shiri Bibas, the mother of Kfir and Ariel Bibas, was also brutally murdered in captivity in Gaza, along with her two children.
I am absolutely heartbroken by this. pic.twitter.com/efNtiVy0OT— Vivid.(@VividProwess) February 22, 2025
The Israeli news website YNET reported:
Kibbutz Nir Oz announced early Saturday that Shiri Bibas was murdered in captivity after being abducted during the October 7 massacre along with her two young sons, Ariel and Kfir. The announcement came hours after her remains were returned to Israel.
“Shiri, who was abducted at the age of 32, was born and raised in Nir Oz. For years, she cared for the kibbutz children with dedication as part of the education system and was beloved by all who knew her. In the past two years, she worked in the kibbutz accounting department, but above all, she was a devoted mother with endless love,” the kibbutz said in a statement.
“Shiri, Yarden, Ariel and Kfir loved their home in Nir Oz—their porch and front lawn, where they spent countless happy moments as a family, and from where they were all abducted on October 7. Shiri’s parents, Yossi and Margit Silberman, were murdered on that awful day. Today, after 16 unbearable months, there is painful closure for the family. Shiri and her little boys will return to their final resting place on Israeli soil. Shiri is survived by her husband, sister, nephews and loving family and friends who will always remember her smile, kindness and the joy she spread. May the memory of Shiri, Ariel and Kfir be blessed.”
Earlier, Shiri’s remains arrived for identification at the National Center of Forensic Medicine in Tel Aviv after being transferred to the IDF by the Red Cross late on Friday. This followed Hamas handing over the remains of an unidentified woman alongside those of the two boys the previous day.
According to the IDF, the mother and her sons were brutally murdered, and the terrorists attempted to conceal their crimes by mutilating the bodies to make it appear as if they had died in an Israeli airstrike.
Statement from the Bibas Family:
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) February 22, 2025
Tonight, our Shiri was returned home. After the identification process at the Institute of Forensic Medicine, we received the news we feared this morning—Shiri was murdered in captivity. She has now returned home to her sons, husband, sister, and… pic.twitter.com/d9AVbgnRuS
Hamas releases six living hostages, including two languishing in Gaza captivity for over a decade
Hamas on Saturday morning release six more Israeli hostages as the phase one of the hostages-for-terrorist deal comes to an end. The freed hostages to reach to the safety of the Israeli soil were Tal Shoham (39), Avera Mengistu (38), Hisham al-Sayed (37), Eliya Cohen (27), Omer Wenkert (23) and Omer Shem-Tov (22).
“After 505 days in Gaza, Omer Shem Tov, Omer Wenkert, and Eliya Cohen, who were kidnapped from the Nova music festival, along with Tal Shoham, who was abducted from Kibbutz Be’eri, were released alongside Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed, who have been held in the Gaza Strip for over a decade. All are now back home, in Israel,” the Israel Hayom newspaper reported.
Ethiopian-Israeli Mengistu and Arab-Israeli al-Sayed have been in Hamas captivity since 2014 and 2015, respectively. Both men suffer from mental health issues and crossed into Gaza on their own before being captured by Hamas. Today’s return ends a decade of waiting for their families.
Tal Shoham, Omer Shem Tov, Eliya Cohen and Omer Wenkert endured 504 days of captivity after they were kidnapped by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023.
Look at Avera Mengistu on the right. What justification is there to hold a mentally ill person for over 10 years?! pic.twitter.com/ktTwUwPYpO
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) February 22, 2025
Hamas released the hostages in two separate ‘ceremonies’, dragging the frail and emaciated captives though a sea of armed terrorists and cheerful onlookers. The hostages were made to wave as they stood on the stage with jihadist graphics and slogans in the backdrop.
The Red Cross convoy is set to arrive soon at the hostage handover site in central Gaza's Nuseirat, where hostages Omer Shem Tov, Eliya Cohen, and Omer Wenkert are set to be released by Hamas. Hisham al-Sayed will be freed at a third location, in Gaza City. pic.twitter.com/ZnDRXHwiaJ
— Ariel Oseran أريئل أوسيران (@ariel_oseran) February 22, 2025
Hamas did not hold a ‘ceremony’ for Bedouin Israeli Hisham al-Sayed — citing its ‘respect’ for the Arab Bedouin community, proving the obvious fact that these spectacles were meant as a final humiliation to the departing hostages and the state of Israel.
“Hisham al-Sayed, the sixth hostage being freed today, will reportedly be handed over to the Red Cross at a third site, in Gaza City, without ceremony,” The Times of Israel reported.
Avera Mengistu passing over the Hostage square on his way to the hospital. pic.twitter.com/od9eKgBF0A
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) February 22, 2025
While Israelis mourn the murder of a toddler and a baby by Hamas, Hamas brings toddlers and babies to participate in their terrorism. pic.twitter.com/5U5sI3Rmc8
— LTC Nadav Shoshani (@LTC_Shoshani) February 22, 2025
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No one can deal with the irrational jealousy and insane hatred of these groups. Why do you think that NO Arab nation willfully takes them in? Everywhere they settle they end up kicked out due to their actions. There is NO good reason why a sovereign country such as Israel that is SO humane has to deal with these miserable creatures being right on their border where they ALWAYS do horrendous mischief and murder.
THIS is why the Russians put them there and re-named them “Palestinians!” And don’t they all seem to be dying to return to HELL?
Huh? Please explain.
Correction, please! I should have said: THIS is why the Russians….. pulled the name “Palestinians” out of their derrieres.
It was an effort to make it sound like the land belonged to these sub-humans, but Gaza is actually a part of The Promised Land, written in the first Bible. This land was also originally called “Judea.” Sound familiar?
As I wrote before, the fundamental problem is Islam itself. The atrocities in Gaza stem from the ideology of Islam. What can we do in the US to halt the spread of Islam, and punish those who have committed these atrocities? Trump will greenlight Israel to respond as it sees fit, but that’s not enough. We must act against Islam and its numerous sympathizers here. Pressure our politicians with letters, email and phone calls. A surge in phone calls does scare them. On a personal level, don’t submit to violence or threats of violence. Protect yourself while being careful to stay within legal boundaries. Get educated on the laws of self defense in your state. Carry self protection: pepper spray, knifes, guns, and get training in the proper use of these instruments in a fight. If we don’t fight back, we will go the way of western Europe, which is doomed.
I agree wholeheartedly with your assessment of Islam. As Churchill observed over a century ago, Islam is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, as we have been witnessing since October 7.
Perhaps – perhaps – the outcry this week from Islamic leaders in response to what happened in Gaza this week may signal a turning of the tide. The Saturday and Sunday people have exactly zero ability to reform Islam. It can only come from within.
“….reform Islam. It can only come from within.”
To reform Islam you would first have to get rid of Muhammad and second you would have to get rid of the Quran. Or else you would have to take out a great portion of it that’s violent. But no one can do this because no one has authority to do it.
Or you could say certain parts of the Quran are no longer applicable. But the problem is, who gets to decide which parts are taken out? Who has such authority to make that decision? No one!
I don’t disagree with you, hence the use of the word “perhaps”.
And if anyone does step forward to claim authority, it certainly won’t be a Christian or Jew (or any religion other than Islam for that matter).
That said, I’m pretty sure the Catholic Church felt invulnerable before Martin Luther came along too.
There is no “reforming Islam”
Islam must be wiped off the face of the earth
Years ago, while I was doing my graduate work in history and political science, in the late 1980s,, we had a talk by the Egyptian Ambassador to the UN. He was asked about his opinion on “muslim fundamentalists” and “radical Islam” He stated that there is no such thing, only Muslims and Islam. “Either you are a Muslim or you are not”. This is Islam.
“palestinian” identity was invented by the KGB to frame it as a civil rights issue and devide the West. Another “popular front” group. Arafat was educated in Moscow, trained, financed and equipped by the KGB. Operation Sig. Arafats handler defected to the U.S. decades ago and spilled the beans. Arafat put a million dollar bounty on his head. His handler told how Arafat was instructed to always dangle the prospect of peace, but never agree to it. It is all a lie. There has never been a non Jewish Palestinian people or nation, ever. These are angry arabs, kept dumb, poor and angry by anti-west international agencies. ,
It looks to me like as soon as they get those hostages out of there they ought to start dropping bombs on those crowds.
Watching the video in Ariel Oseran’s tweet, I kept thinking, “lost opportunity”.
Hang on? There were two hostages released that had been held in captivity for over a decade??
Where is the outrage from Europe? The UN? The Red Cross? All those NGO’s that had been embedded in to Gaza?!?
The silence from these groups is deafening?
“The silence from these groups is deafening?”
My poor ears are ringing!
I’ve heard enough to justify the extermination of the Hamas animals and the destruction of Gaza as currently established a thousand times over. Nothing more need be said. The only question is how, over time, to transition the population to another location. But Hamas is done, they just don’t understand that, like all rabid animals.
On an uninhabited island , no trees, no boats
A three era tour.
Send them all straight to HELL!! They are all supporting hamas. They all deserve to be run out of gaza and into the desert of the Sinai. Bomb then bulldoze gaza into the ash heap of history. Enough is enough.
The hostages were farmed out all over Gaza to a number of groups. I bet one of them was holding the deceased woman and murdered her then when asked for her back panicked and substituted someone else. The Hamas terrorists in charge of the exchange were probably as surprised as anyone that the woman turned over was the correct one.
“…woman turned over was the incorrect one.”
You may have had it right the first time.
Inventory control is not high on the list of terrorist skills.
Time to send the Arabian colonists of the Land Of Israel home to Arabia.
Oh, and the Jews were the Palestinians millennia before pagan barbarians from some unknown island wore clothes