Netanyahu slams ‘unspeakable cynicism’ of Hamas for handing over Gazan body in place of Shiri Bibas

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slams the “unspeakable cynicism” of Hamas after Israeli forensic authorities determined that the body handed over yesterday which Hamas said was of Shiri Bibas is not her.

“The cruelty of the Hamas monsters knows no bounds,” Netanyahu says in a video statement. “Not only did they kidnap the father, Yarden Bibas, the young mother, Shiri, and their two small babies. But in an unspeakably cynical manner, they did not return Shiri alongside her young children, the little angels, and they put the body of a Gazan woman in the coffin.”

Yarden Bibas was freed earlier this month.

Netanyahu vows that Israel will “act resolutely to bring Shiri home along with all our hostages — both living and dead — and ensure that Hamas pays the full price for this cruel and evil violation of the agreement.”

The prime minister also expresses sadness at the confirmation that the other three bodies returned were those of Oded Lifshitz, 83, Ariel Bibas, 4, and Kfir, approximately 10 months, saying that “the three of them were brutally murdered in Hamas captivity in the first weeks of the war.”

He adds: “May God avenge their blood — and we too will avenge.”