"No match was found for any other hostage. This is an anonymous, unidentified body,” the Israel Defense Forces said.

In November 2023, without providing evidence, Hamas claimed that the children—then 4 years old and 10 months old—along with their mother, had died in an Israeli airstrike.

IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said in a statement: "Following a forensic examination, we can confirm that baby Kfir Bibas, aged just ten months old, and his older brother Ariel, aged 4, were both brutally murdered by terrorists while being held hostage in Gaza, no later than November, 2023," Hagari said.

Israel Defense Forces on Friday called Hamas a “genocidal terrorist organization” as it returned the bodies of four hostages, including an infant. Read more at Republicworld.com

I didn’t do enough to save them,” said an Israeli onlooker paying final respects to four captives coming home in coffins.

Hamas expresses surprise at mix-up after body of Gazan woman sent to Israel in place of Shiri Bibas, says it will proceed with deal, naming six lived hostages to be freed Saturday The post IDF says captors murdered children Ariel and Kfir Bibas with ‘their bare hands’ appeared first on The Times of Israel.

Hamas terrorists brutally murdered Israeli brothers Ariel and Kfir Bibas with their bare hands, Israel declared Friday — despite the terrorist group long-claiming the youngsters were killed