Ofri Bibas: ‘We are not asking for revenge; we are asking for Shiri.’ Tells her murdered nephews: ‘You didn’t deserve any of this’

Ofri Bibas, the aunt of Ariel and Kfir Bibas, eulogizes the two young boys after their bodies were returned to Israel by Hamas yesterday.

“I’m sorry Luli, I’m sorry Firfir, that I can’t cry for you yet. We are waiting for your mother Shiri,” she writes and says on social media, using their nicknames.

“You didn’t deserve any of this. We’ll miss you forever. And we won’t give up on Mom Shiri.”

“For Ariel and Kfir and for Yarden, we are not asking for revenge now. We are asking for Shiri,” she says. “Hamas’s cruelty only underlines the need to immediately get Shiri back to us and save the lives of the living hostages, and get the fallen back for burial.”

She also said: “There can be no forgiving the abandonment of October 7, and no forgiving the abandonment [of those held] in captivity. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, we didn’t get an apology from you at this terrible moment.”

Israel said overnight that it had confirmed that Hamas handed over the remains of the young brothers, and that they were likely “brutally murdered” by terrorists in November 2023, according to a forensic examination. The body that Hamas said belonged to their mother, Shiri, was an unidentified Gazan woman, said Israel.

Ofri’s brother, Yarden Bibas, who was taken separately from his family, was freed from Gaza earlier this month.