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Child Kfir Bibas, Hamas’s smallest hostagecelebrated his first year this year on January 18, a holiday he would spend in captivity after being kidnapped October 7 at Kibbutz
Child Kfir Bibas, Hamas’s smallest hostagecelebrated his first year this year on January 18, a holiday he would spend in captivity after being kidnapped October 7 at Kibbutz Nir Oz with his parents Yarden and Shiri and four-year-old brother Ariel; all of them are still held in the Gaza Strip there is no news about whether they are alive or dead.
Kfir, who was kidnapped when he was not yet nine months old, and his brother Ariel. They are the only children who remain in captivity inside the enclave after 104 days of war, starting on October 7, when Hamas launched an attack on Israeli soil that killed more than 1,200 people and took 240 hostage.
“For a child, this is a whole life.”He stated this in a statement EFE Yossi Schneider, Shiri’s cousin and representative of the Bibas family, about the time when Kfir was kidnapped.
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“The world’s saddest birthday” was announced today by the Forum of Relatives of Hostages and Missing Persons, which organized an event in Tel Aviv this afternoon in honor of Kfir demanding his release.
At the event, Yifat Zeiler, also Shiri Bibas’ cousin, criticized the position of Netanyahu and his government that military force is the appropriate mechanism to free captives in the Gaza Strip.
“Let’s make sure that no one can speak loudly to us over our heads and at the expense of our loved ones that only military action will free the hostages,” Seiler said.
At the event, families of captives also confirmed pressure to that the Israeli government will be able to free them and provideand that “every moment that passes puts your life at risk.”
Hamas’s armed wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, announced on November 29 that Shiri Silberman’s mother Bibas, 32, of Argentine descent, and her two sons Ariel and Kfir were killed in the Israeli army’s bombing of the Gaza Strip. ., but they did not provide any evidence on this matter.
A few days later, they published a video of 34-year-old Yarden Bibas, who apparently spent his captivity apart from the rest of his family, in which he asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the war so he could be reunited with his wife and children.
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“Somehow I feel like they are still alive. I can’t explain it, but that’s how I feel. “I have no choice,” Schneider said.
Nearly two months later, the Israeli army was unable to verify this information, as it did with other hostages left to die by Islamist militias, so no one from the Argentine-Israeli Bibas family appears on the list of those killed. 27 hostages are believed to have died in captivity, out of 136 hostages who still remain in the sector.
However, the fact that the mother and two minors were not released during a week-long truce in November has raised suspicions about whether they are alive or not. There was also speculation that they were in the hands of other groups with which Hamas was unable to establish contact.
During this truce, concluded from November 24 to 30, Hamas released all the minors it had held as hostages, most of them along with their mothers, among a total of 105 hostages that were handed over in exchange for the release of 240 Palestinian prisoners.
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Source: Aristegui Noticias
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