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None hurt as 3 bombs explode on empty buses in Tel Aviv area, 2 others disabled * Israel: PIJ murdered Oded Lifshitz in captivity; ID ongoing for purported bodies of Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas
By Michael Bachner
and ToI Staff 20 February 2025, 3:51 am Edit
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and ToI Staff 20 February 2025, 3:51 am Edit
- The shell of a bus after it was blown up by an explosive device in a Bat Yam bus parking lot, February 20, 2025. (Israel Fire and Rescue Authority)
- A bus goes up in flames after an explosion at a parking lot in Bat Yam, February 20, 2025. (Screenshot)
- Oded Lifshitz (left); Shiri Bibas, Kfir Bibas and Ariel Bibas (Amiram Oren/Courtesy)
- Israel Police officers salute and members of the public wave Israeli flags as a convoy carrying what are believed to be the bodies of four Israeli hostages slain in Gaza captivity makes its way to the Abu Kabir forensic institute, on February 20, 2025. (Israel Police)
- The IDF holds a ceremony in the Gaza Strip honoring the four slain Israeli hostages whose bodies are apparently in coffins returned by Hamas, February 20, 2025. The coffins are seen draped in Israeli flags. (IDF)
- Coffins apparently containing the bodies of slain Israeli hostages Shiri Bibas, her two children Ariel and Kfir, and Oded Lifshitz, are displayed on a stage with a propaganda message before being handed over to the Red Cross by Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
- Hamas terrorists carry the coffin apparently of a slain Israeli hostage as they hand over four such coffins to the Red Cross in Khan Younis, Gaza, February 20, 2025. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)
- A rally on Tel Aviv's Begin Road calling for the release of the hostages from Gaza and mourning four dead hostages whose bodies were said to be returned by Hamas, February 20, 2025. (Zohar Bar-Yehuda/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)
- People gather at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, on the day that Hamas released what it said were the remains of four slain hostages, including Oded Lifshitz, whose body has been positively identified; February 20, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
- Activists form the word 'Sacrificed' in memorial candles during an event mourning returned hostages from Gaza, at Tel Aviv's Begin Road, February 20, 2025. (Yael Gadot/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)