Last night Hamas He claimed to have delivered the body of the killed hostage Shiri Bibas to the red cross. According to what reported by Channel 12 News the red cross informed Israel to have been convened by Hamas in a place in the Gaza Strip, where a coffin with the body of Bibas would be delivered. Subsequently, an Israeli official confirmed that Hamas had delivered a coffin to the Red Cross. The latter, in turn, has passed it to the Idf, who will transfer it to the National Institute of Forensic Medicine to proceed with the identification of the body. The Ministry of Health said: «The National Center for Forensic Medicine is ready to carry out the identification examination; The teams, including legal doctors and the workshops of the Center, are ready to provide an answer in the shortest possible time, in full compliance with the sensitivity of the family ». A spokesman for the IDF also said: “Following the reports relating to Shiri Bibas, we are leading a review. Our representatives are in contact with the family, who asked to act with responsibility and avoid the spread of unauthorized reports that could compromise the current efforts “.
Shiri Bibas’s body had to be returned to Israel on Thursday, together with that of his two children, Kfir and Ariel. However, after the National Institute of Legal Medicine completed the identification process, the IDF announced that the body received did not correspond to that of Shiri Bibas, but to that of an anonymous and unidentified woman. On Friday morning Hamas confirmed that the body delivered to Israel the previous day did not belong to Shiri Bibas, declaring: “The remains of Shiri Bibas have apparently mixed with those of other fallen under the rubble, following the blow of the IF in the place in which he was “
Also this time Hamas held cynical ceremonies for the release of the hostages: a Rafahin the south of the Gaza Strip, and Nusraatin the center, platforms were set up and armed and civil terrorists gathered there. Five hostages held by Hamas were freed this morning: Omar Shem Tov, Omar Wankert, Elia Cohen e tat the shohamkidnapped on October 7th, while Avraham Mengistu And Hisham al-Sayed they will return after more than ten years of imprisonment. In particular, Hisham al-Sayed relaxes later that suffering from schizophrenia, had entered Gaza in 2015 for an error and was captured by Hamas, who had falsely declared a soldier. In 2022, Hamas had published the first sign of life in seven years, showing the man connected to a respirator in a video. After October 7, the case of Al-Sayed he re -emerged, pushing his father to join theHostage Families Forum to bring his history back to the attention of the public. This is the last step in which the hostages will be released alive as part of the first phase of the agreement. Hamas said he was ready to start the second phase of the agreement for the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, aiming to create a total exchange between Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners. The organization has specified that the final goal is to establish a permanent fire and obtain the complete retreat of the Israeli security forces (IDF) from the Gaza strip which the Israelis do not intend to do.
In an interview with Fox Radio, the President of the United States, Donald Trumphe claimed that his plan for Gaza is valid, however specifying that he does not intend to impose it, but simply recommend it. He also observed that “Gaza presents himself in a state of complete destruction, so much so that, if he had granted his freedom of choice, his population would opt to leave.” He manifests a justified anger for the events of the previous day, in particular as regards the bodies of the kidnapped, calling them “barbaric acts”. When he was asked if he preferred the second phase of the agreement on the hostages or that Netanyahu resumes military operations, the American president replied: “I will agree with any decision, given what is happening there … sometimes you have to make difficult decisions”
