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Sunday, February 23, 2025
Sister-in-law of Shiri Bibas in 1st comment since her body was returned: ‘Continue to hug Ariel and Kfir tightly’
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The sister-in-law of Shiri Bibas makes her first comments since the young mother’s body was finally returned by Hamas.
“Continue to hug Ariel and Kfir tightly also for us. We will hug Yarden and remember you always,” writes Ofri Bibas.
Bibas was abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz along with her two young sons, Ariel, 4, and Kfir, 9 months old, during the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led invasion and massacre in southern Israel. The family’s father Yarden was abducted separately and was released on February 1 during the first phase of the ceasefire and hostage release deal.
Israel has strongly refuted Hamas’s claims that Shiri and her young sons were killed in an airstrike, saying that forensics show that Shiri was “brutally” killed alongside her sons, who were murdered with “bare hands.”
עופרי ביבס כותבת לראשונה מאז השבתה של שירי לקבורה: "תמשיכי לחבק חזק את אריאל וכפיר גם בשבילנו. אנחנו נחבק את ירדן ונזכור אותך תמיד"@NOFARMOS
(צילום: רשתות חברתיות) pic.twitter.com/r3V6cZezaN— כאן חדשות (@kann_news) February 23, 2025
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