Cousin of Hamas captive Shiri Bibas says TikTok deleted video calling for family’s release

A cousin of Shiri Bibas, who was kidnapped with her husband and two young children on October 7, says a video calling for the family’s release was removed from TikTok.

The world is now familiar with the Hamas video that captured Shiri’s look of sheer terror as she gripped her two redheaded boys, Ariel, 4, and Kfir, then-9 months, close to her chest as they were captive from their Kibbutz Nir Oz home on October 7. Her husband, Yarden Bibas, 34, was taken hostage separately.

In a post on social media, Yifat Zailer says the video was shared on the official Hostage and Missing Families Forum profile and removed as “political.”

“Saying ‘bring the Bibas family back’ is political. I am shocked by the one-sidedness of their position. I am shocked that the struggle to bring home a one-year-old boy, a four-year-old boy and their parents from the captivity of a terrorist organization is a political struggle and not a crime against humanity for them. I’m finished with TikTok,” she writes.

The Walla news site quotes a response from TikTok that says the issue was a “technical fault” and that it would be fixed “as soon as possible.”