„The #Bibas family demands the Israeli government cease exploiting the deaths of their family members for propaganda purposes as layers of evidence support claims an Israeli #airstrike killed them.“
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/02/25/bibas-israeli-govt-propaganda-hostage-killings/
One of the most emotionally loaded moment of our lives. Low singing the Tikvah (the hope) national Israeli anthem alongside a mixed Jewish and non Jewish Bedouin, Arab crowd and more, cop cars saying "Baruch Hashem, we shall know better days" as the cars carrying Shiri, Kfir and Ariel are passing us by. Our Israeli hearts are broken but we must live in spite of terror. Cry for them, then do your best to live your best life for them also. That's the best we can do. Rest in peace, pure souls, Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas. 
Here about a mile away from the Gaza border.
trigger warning: bibas family
Curious about this, and, embarrassingly, this is as close to a general population as I can get. Please boost for reach.
With that said:
Have you heard of the Bibas family and what happened to them (before I asked this question)?
#Skwawkbox | As Bibas family refuses to let Netanyahu attend funeral, footage further undermines Israeli/UK death narrative
"Israel’s propaganda machine has been pushing a narrative hard that Shiri Bibas and her two young children were killed ‘by hand’ and that their deaths were only known recently – a narrative that UK PM Keir Starmer avidly reinforced in his statement about the return of their bodies from Gaza yesterday despite Israel’s military spokesman Daniel Hagari admitting during a press conference on Friday that Israel had known for months that they were dead, in fact since November 2023, just a month after their abduction during the 7 October raid in southern Israel."
Whoever destroys a single life from Israel, it is as if they destroyed an entire world; whoever saves one, as if they saved an entire world.
“כָּל הַמְּאַבֵּד נֶפֶשׁ אַחַת מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל, כְּאִלּוּ אִבֵּד עוֹלָם מָלֵא; וְכָל הַמְּקַיֵּם נֶפֶשׁ אַחַת מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל, כְּאִלּוּ קִיֵּם עוֹלָם מָלֵא.”
– Talmud, Sanhedrin 37a
We couldn’t save you, Ariel and Kfir. Or too many others on October 7, and before.
Even in the Holocaust, some risked everything to save Jewish lives.
I am waiting for one story—just one—of someone in Gaza who helped a hostage survive.
Not one.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGWGUGhxiku/?igsh=MW4zZjg1ZHM3aG95aA==
Hamas Says It Has Returned Another Body It Believes Is Shiri Bibas https://www.byteseu.com/767181/ #Bibas #DefenseAndMilitaryForces #Hamas #Israel #KhanYounis(GazaStrip) #Shiri
En direct, cessez-le-feu à #Gaza : la famille #Bibas dénonce la « responsabilité d’Israël » dans la mort des enfants Ariel et Kfir, tués en captivité
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2025/02/21/en-direct-cessez-le-feu-a-gaza-israel-a-recu-le-nom-de-6-otages-qui-doivent-etre-liberes-samedi-602-prisonniers-palestiniens-seront-relaches-en-echange-selon-une-ong_6547380_3210.html
Les corps des deux enfants ont été remis aux autorités israéliennes, mais pas celui de leur mère. Le #Hamas, accusé par Israël d’avoir violé l’accord de trêve, promet une enquête. Un nouvel échange, entre 6 otages et 602 prisonniers palestiniens, doit avoir lieu ce samedi #Palestine
Today is an orange day. Today, all of us, Israel and the collective Jewish diaspora, and any who support us and can feel our pain, bleed in orange. In heartbreak for Ariel and Kfir, and in insecure but deep hope for Shiri, I made these orange necklaces and bracelets to help process this grief over the deaths of the Bibas boys. I can feel deep pain but a fraction of the pain of their family, living close by to me and mine, a few miles away from the border with our brutal enemy. Today I wear orange and make orange jewelry, hoping to sell those soon and send 30 percent of the proceeds to the Bibas family directly or through the Hostages Families Organization.
Purchase here: https://emmanuelleskaly.com/
@kmpiw@mastodon.social @kmpiw@kolektiva.social
Follow up statement from the Palestinian Mujahedeen Movement about the bodies of the #Bibas family and alleged misidentification of Shirin Bibas (from about half an hour ago)
نائب الأمين العام لحركة المجاهدين الفلسطينية للتلفزيون العربي:
نرفض ادعاءات الاحتلال الصهيوني بشأن جثمان بيباس و نرفض تهديدات نتنياهو المطلوب لمحكمة الجنائية الدولية وهي محاولة للهروب من الضغط الداخلي بسبب مسئوليته المباشرة عن مقتل الأسرى
حرصنا منذ اليوم الأول على عودة الأسرى الإسرائيليين أحياء وعاملهم بأخلاق الاسلام الحنيف ، ونحن ليس من ينتهك قيم الانسانية كما يفعل الاحتلال الفاشي.ما زال جثامين الاف الشهداء تحت الأنقاض بسبب منع العدو إدخال المعدات اللازمة لرفع الانقاض وتهربه من البروتوكول الإنساني.
ربما حدث خطأ في تحديد هوية الجثة جراء ضراوة القصف الصهيوني واستهدافه المجمعات السكنية بالاف اطنان المتفجرات ..
نحن في تواصل وتعاون مع الإخوة في حركة حماس ونبحث اداعاءات الاحتلال و سنبلغ الوسطاء بنتائج التحقيق بخصوص جثمان الأسيرة بيباس
#GoogleTranslate (seems to usually work better than local algorithm)
Deputy Secretary General of the Palestinian Mujahideen Movement for Arab Television:
We reject the claims of the Zionist occupation regarding the body of Bibas and we reject the threats of Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court, which is an attempt to escape from internal pressure due to his direct responsibility for the killing of prisoners.
Since the first day, we have been keen on the return of the Israeli prisoners alive and treating them with the morals of the true Islam. We are not the ones who violate the values of humanity as the fascist occupation does.
The bodies of thousands of martyrs are still under the rubble because the enemy prevents the entry of the necessary equipment to remove the rubble and evades the humanitarian protocol.
Perhaps there was a mistake in identifying the body due to the ferocity of the Zionist bombing and targeting of residential complexes with thousands of tons of explosives.
We are in contact and cooperation with our brothers in the Hamas movement and we are looking into the occupation’s allegations and we will inform the mediators of the results of the investigation regarding the body of the prisoner Bibas.
Deputy Secretary-General of the Palestinian Mojahidin Television Movement:
:: We reject the allegations of the Zionist occupation concerning the bodies of Pipas and reject the threats of Netanyahu required by the International Criminal Court, an attempt to escape internal pressure because of its direct responsibility for the deaths of prisoners
:: Since the first day, we have been keen to return the Israeli prisoners alive and to serve them with the morals of good Islam, and we are not the ones violating the values of humanity as the fascist occupation does.
:: The bodies of thousands of martyrs remain under rubble because the enemy has been prevented from entering the equipment necessary to lift the rubble and escape the humanitarian protocol.
:: There may have been a mistake in identifying the body as a result of the severity of the Zionist shelling and the targeting of residential compounds in the thousands of tons of explosives.
:: We are in touch and cooperate with Hamas brothers and we are looking at the protagonists of the occupation, and we will inform the mediators of the findings of the investigation regarding the body of the Bishops.
PalestinianMujahedeenMovement #MujahedeenBrigades #InternationalCriminalCourt #Netenyahu
But others called for calm, arguing the fate of the #Bibas family exemplified why the truce needed to be extended….
The village leadership at #NirOz, the Bibas’s hometown, released a stmnt on Fri that called on #Israel to “stick to our values & to the Bibas family’s clear demands at this moment: release, not revenge. The state must bring Shiri back by all means, in a way that does not jeopardize the continuation of the deal & the immediate release of all the hostages.”
The news set off a paroxysm of fury & agony in #Israel rarely seen since the tumultuous days that followed #Hamas’s attack on Israel on #Oct7, 2023, when up to 1,200 people were killed and 251 were abducted, including Ms. #Bibas & her sons, on the deadliest day in Israeli history.
Responding to the military’s announcement, PM Benjamin #Netanyahu of Israel returned to the language of vengeance that defined his speeches in the aftermath of that attack.
#Hamas, which had previously said the #Bibas children were killed in an Israeli missile strike, said in a statement that it was investigating the claims & suggested that #ShiriBibas’s body might have been mistakenly confused for that of a dead Palestinian in the chaotic aftermath of an Israeli attack. Neither side’s account could be independently verified.
#Hamas said it had returned the bodies of #ShiriBibas & her two sons. #Israel military announced that the boys were murdered in Gaza & that Ms. #Bibas’s body was that of someone else.
#geopolitics #Gaza #war
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-hamas-bibas-hostages.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Israelis gathered along the highway in the country’s south to watch the coffins travel by convoy to Tel Aviv for forensic examination. #Israel’s govt has not confirmed the deaths of Shiri, Ariel & Kfir, saying it will verify the identities of the deceased only after the examination.
…It is unclear how Shiri #Bibas & her sons were killed. #Hamas alleges that they were killed by an Israeli airstrike but has not provided any evidence.
Shiri Bibas; her husband, Yarden; & their sons were taken from their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz. Yarden #Bibas was released just over 2 weeks ago in a round of exchanges.
Crowds gathered in the rain in #Gaza to watch the hostages’ bodies handed over to waiting Red Cross teams. #Hamas fighters dressed in dark fatigues delivered the coffins one by one to the Red Cross, who transferred them into vehicles. The Red Cross delivered the coffins to #Israel forces in the Gaza Strip.
#Hamas released the bodies of 4 hostages Thurs, including…the remains of a mother & her 2 young children, members of the #Bibas family, whose story came to symbolize the brutality of the #Oct7, 2023 attacks.
…The deaths of Shiri Bibas & her sons—Ariel, who was 4yrs old, & Kfir, who was 8½ months old at the time of the abduction—were suspected for months, but only confirmed when Hamas announced their bodies would be among those released.
#Israel #Gaza #war #geopolitics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/02/20/hostages-hamas-gaza-israel-bibas-family/
Ihnen ist jedes Menschliche fremd. Die Rache Israels an den Palistinensern wird fürchterlich sein.
#Bibas #BibasFamily #Hamas
https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Bibas-Kinder-Hamas-uebergibt-unter-Jubel-Leichen-israelischer-Geiseln-article25575938.html
