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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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