Israeli military stated the stays of two baby captives had been recognized however one other physique launched by Hamas was not the boys’ mom or every other captive.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Hamas of committing a “merciless and evil” violation of the Gaza ceasefire deal as he claimed that one of many our bodies returned on Thursday was not of the feminine captive Shiri Bibas.
Earlier, the Israeli military stated the stays of two baby captives had been recognized however one other physique launched by Hamas was not the boys’ mom or every other captive.
Hamas handed over the our bodies of 4 individuals who had been taken captive throughout its October 2023 assault on southern Israel, beneath the ceasefire settlement that has paused greater than 15 months of battle.
The stays of Ariel and Kfir Bibas had been recognized by the Nationwide Institute of Forensic Drugs and Israel Police afterwards, however the military stated early on Friday that the third physique was not that of their mom Shiri Bibas or every other captive.
The fourth physique was that of Oded Lifshitz, who was 83 when he was taken captive.
“We demand that Hamas return Shiri house together with all our hostages,” the military stated.
Afterward Friday, Netanyahu issued a risk to Hamas, saying, “We are going to act with dedication to carry Shiri house together with all our hostages – each residing and lifeless – and guarantee Hamas pays the complete value for this merciless and evil violation of the settlement.”
There was no remark from Hamas but on Israeli claims. The Palestinian group has maintained that the deceased captives handed over on Thursday had been killed in an Israeli air assault throughout the battle, however Israel says they had been killed by Hamas in November 2023.
Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh, reporting from Amman in Jordan, stated the Bibas household was not captured by Hamas however by a smaller, lesser-known group.
“It’s unclear how this might have occurred, and we wait to see what sort of response within the morning we get from Hamas,” Odeh stated.
It additionally stays unclear whether or not the subsequent swap, scheduled for Saturday, will happen following the allegations.
There was “great public anger whipped up inside Israel” over the controversy of the our bodies, in accordance with Mohamad Bazzi, an affiliate professor at New York College.
He advised Al Jazeera that the Israeli proper wing had seized on the second to press for a return to battle.
However it might be “fairly one thing” for Netanyahu to restart preventing and jeopardise additional releases of captives by abandoning the ceasefire deal now, Bazzi stated.
