From the Liveblog of
Friday, February 21, 2025
Netanyahu says murderers of Ariel and Kfir Bibas ‘do not deserve to walk this earth’
Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter
Holding a photo of Ariel and Kfir Bibas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praises their mother Shiri for fighting “like a lioness to protect her boys.”
“Just imagine their horror,” he says in an English-language video, speaking about the Nir Oz family kidnapped on October 7, 2023. “Imagine their confusion. Perfect little children who never hurt a soul. A baby, for the love of God.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:
“Today is a tragic day. It’s a day of boundless sorrow, of indescribable pain.
Four-year-old Ariel Bibas, his baby brother one-year-old Kfir and 84-year-old Oded Lifshitz were brutally murdered by Hamas savages. pic.twitter.com/7TMchvOZ9E
— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) February 21, 2025
He calls Hamas monsters for murdering the young boys, and also for sending the body of a Gazan woman back instead of Shiri yesterday “in brazen violation of the agreement.”
“Today, the heavens shake,” he says, insisting that the “entire civilized world” should condemn the murders.
Netanyahu promises to bring to justice “the savages who executed our hostages.”
“They do not deserve to walk this earth,” he says. “Nothing will stop me. Nothing.”
He apologizes to the Bibas brothers and to Oded Lifshitz, whose body was also returned yesterday after being murdered in captivity.
“May your memories forever be a blessing and a reminder to all of us that we must fight this evil and eradicate it from the face of this earth,” Netanyahu concludes.
The Times of Israel Community.