Human remains that were returned to Israel from Hamas

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According to an explanation of her family, which was presented on Saturday by the hostelhms forum, the human remains were returned by Hamas from Hamas to Israel.

It was expected that Bibas’ remains of four hostages that were returned on Thursday together with their sons Kfir and Ariel and another prisoner, oded Lifshitz. The boys were 9 months old and 4 years when they were captured.

While forensic tests of the Israeli authorities confirmed that the remains of the two boys and Lifshitz, the fourth body was neither that of Shiri Bibas – and nor did it agree with that of another Israeli hostage, which led to undiluted and convictions.

Now her body has been brought back to Israel according to the forum.

“Our Shiri was brought home last night. After the identification process at the Institute of Forensic Medicine, we received the news this morning that we feared: Our Shiri was murdered in captivity ”, the explanation of the The Bibas family said hostages and missing family forum.

“She returned home to her sons, her husband, sister and all of her family to rest,” added the explanation.

CNN contacted the Israeli government to official confirmation of the results of the forensic examination.

Shiri’s husband and the father of the children, Yarden Bibas, was released from Hamas after 484 days of captivity after 484 days.

The opposition party leader Yair Lapid, who called the return of Bibas’, remains “a long and painful closure of a circle”.

“I share the pain and grief of the family and friends. We hoped for another end, ”said Lapid in a post in the telegram.

Kibbutz Nir Oz, the community, in which Bibas, together with her husband and her children, was held hostage at the attack on October 7th led by Hamas, expressed his “deep grief” in a statement on Saturday.

“Today, after 16 unbearably difficult months, the painful circle is finally closed to the family, and in the coming days it will return to the country of Israel with her two young sons,” the explanation says.

On Friday, the Red Cross International Committee announced that it received a coffin from Hamas and transferred a number of human remains to the Israeli authorities. The Al-Aqsa News, led by Hamas, reported that the militant group had handed over what it described as a Bibas body, and quoted their leader Mahmoud Mardawi.

A convoy with the remains came to identify in Tel Aviv on Friday evening. When the vehicles arrived in the city in the Abu Kabir Forensics Center, the mourners lined the street outside and held Israeli flags.

The Hamas, who says that Shiri and the two boys were killed in an Israeli air raid in 2023, later said that their body was confused and sworn with the body of another person who was killed in the air raid.

Israel rejected Hamas’s explanation of how the members of the Bibas family died. On Friday, the Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari claimed that forensic evidence showed that militants had murdered the two boys “with bare hands”. He did not explain the claim that Hamas later released as “sheer lies”.