German FM blasts ‘limitless terror of Hamas’ for staging ceremony with supposed remains of slain hostages

By Lazar Berman

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20 February 2025, 2:05 pm

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Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter

Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock blasts Hamas for staging a ceremony with the remains of the slain hostages before handing them over.

“Four coffins, paraded on a stage – images that are almost unbearable,” she writes on X. “The hostage families are exposed to the limitless terror of Hamas until the end.”

Baerbock adds that the coming days are “once again torturous for the families, until they know whether they can actually say goodbye. I think of Oded’s family. And of Yarden. The next few hours will decide their whole world.”