Israeli ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, marks the first birthday in Hamas captivity of Kfir Bibas — who is the youngest hostage held by the terror group — pulling out a cake for the child in a speech at the UN.
Bibas was almost 10 months old when he was taken with his four-year-old brother, Ariel, and their mother Shiri Bibas, 32, from their home on Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7 during Hamas’s murderous onslaught in southern Israel.
Shiri’s husband and the father of the two boys, Yarden Bibas, 34, was also taken hostage.
“If you ignore the suffering of our children, the suffering of baby Kfir, I will stand here today and mark Kfir’s first birthday. I will remind you of your moral obligation to fight for Kfir and his right to celebrate his birthday,” Erdan says at the podium, uncovering a cake.
“This cake is for you, you are the reason Israel is fighting day and night,” he says.
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