Horrified Argentine officials mourn Bibas family, who were citizens

Officials in Argentina express grief and horror after the Hamas handover of what the terror group says were the bodies of Shiri Silberman Bibas and her two small kids Ariel and Kfir Bibas, who all held Argentine citizenship.

“We are all in mourning, we are overcome with deep pain,” Argentine Defense Minister Luis Petri says on X.

There is no immediate statement from libertarian President Javier Milei, who has reshaped his country’s foreign policy in line with Israel, expressed interest in converting to Judaism and designated Hamas as a terrorist organization in the wake of its October 7, 2023, onslaught.

Argentina’s main Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, which was targeted in a notorious 1994 bombing that killed 85 people, says the return of the hostages’ bodies “confronts us, once again, with unimaginable cruelty and the darkest and most devastating facet of terrorism.”