The Israeli army released this Monday the images found in Gaza where it claims to have seen Shiri Bibasa woman held captive by Palestinian militias, with her youngest children Ariel and Kfir – a one-year-old baby – as they were transported into the Strip on October 7, their first day of captivity.
“We are very concerned about the condition and safety of Shiri and the children “We are doing everything we can to get more information about his whereabouts.”declared Army spokesman Daniel Hagari regarding the case of this Argentine-Israeli family whose fate and status are unknown.
According to him, photos and video images found in a security camera in Gaza show how the mother and her children, surrounded by armed militiamen, They are covered with a tarpaulin by Gaza militants who transferred them to the Khan Yunis area on October 7, the day of the Hamas attack on Israel in which around 1,200 people lost their lives and another 250 were taken hostage in Gaza.
The case of the Bibas family He is one of the best known of the more than 130 Israelis still prisoners in Gaza -about thirty of them were confirmed dead-.
Baby Kfir is the youngest hostage left in the Stripand was taken prisoner with his four-year-old brother Ariel and his mother, residents of a kibbutz adjacent to Gaza, while their father, Yarden, was kidnapped separately and also transferred to the enclave.
None of them were freed in the first week-long prisoner release agreement in late November, in which women and children were largely released, raising concerns among relatives and friends about their plight.
The 12 Argentinians kidnapped by Hamas: Iair Horn, Eitan Horn, Ron Sherman, Kfir Bibas, Ariel Bibas, Shiri Silberman Bibas. Below: Yarden Bibas, Ariel Cunio, David Cunio, Fernando Marman, Luis Har, Lior Rudaeff.As Hamas announced at the time, Shiri and her two children were killed by an Israeli bombardment in Gaza.although Israel assures that for now it has not been able to verify or confirm this information.
According to the Army, the videos found and distributed this Monday prove that they did not die when they were taken hostage and arrived alive in the Khan Yunis area of Gaza on 7 October.
There, added spokesperson Hagari, they remained in the hands of another Palestinian militia present in the Strip, Kataib Mujahideen.
“The images show the terrorists wrapping Shiri and her children in a sheet, trying to hide them. You can see little Ariel’s red hair peeking out from the white cloth.”
After that, “They forced them into a car and took them to another place”– added Hagari.
After information released by the army, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacted to the images.
“We will bring these kidnappers of babies and mothers to justice.”. They won’t get away with it,” she said in a statement released by her office.
Source: Clarin
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