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Images show IDF ceremony in Gaza after receiving the body of hostage Shiri Bibas
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEmanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
Photos are released from an IDF ceremony in the Gaza Strip late last night upon receiving the body of slain hostage Shiri Silberman Bibas.
The coffin is seen draped in an Israeli flag as it is carried by IDF officers into a military vehicle.
Silberman Bibas’s body was identified at the National Institute of Forensic Medicine (Abu Kabir) early this morning.
Hamas returned her body last night, 504 days after she was abducted alive with her two young boys Ariel and Kfir. All three were murdered in captivity, according to Israel.
The bodies of Ariel, Kfir and fellow hostage Oded Lifshitz were returned on Thursday, along with a fourth body Hamas claimed belonged to Silberman Bibas but Israel said wasn’t her.
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