The Hamas official mentioned that the group had knowledgeable the mediators in November 2023 that it was prepared at hand over the our bodies of the three Bibas members of the family.
“Mediators have been knowledgeable on the time and it was additionally introduced in a press release when the Bibas household was killed together with their captors in an Israeli air strike,” the official mentioned.
“Hamas had supplied at hand over their our bodies in November 2023, however (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu refused on the time.”
Israel and Netanyahu have repeatedly dismissed these claims from Hamas and on Friday the prime minister mentioned in a press release that forensic checks had decided that the Bibas youngsters have been “brutally murdered in Hamas captivity and weren’t killed by Israel Protection Forces (Israeli navy) bombings”.
The 2 Bibas boys had change into symbols of the hostage disaster together with their mom Shiri Bibas.
Throughout their assault on Israel on Oct 7, 2023, that triggered the Gaza battle, Hamas filmed and later broadcast footage exhibiting the Bibas household’s abduction from their dwelling close to the Gaza border.
Ariel was then aged 4, whereas Kfir was the youngest hostage at simply 9 months previous.
Their father Yarden Bibas, who was additionally seized through the assault, was launched earlier this month.
