The Palestinian armed group Hamas said that he was investigating the affirmation of Israel that one of the bodies he had given to Israel on Thursday as part of the Gaza-Fire Agreement in progress was not that of the captive woman Shiri Bibas.
In a statement published on Friday, Hamas said that there could have been “the possibility of an error or overlapping in the bodies” because he had promised to “clearly” the conclusions of his probe. The group added that the confusion was perhaps the result of the absence of the Israeli forces “the place where the family was with other Palestinians”.
“We have received the allegations and complaints from the occupation of the Mediators, and we will examine these complaints with a total seriousness, and we will clearly announce the results,” the statement said.
The answer reached after the Israeli army said that the remains of the two captives for returned children, Ariel and Kfir Bibas, had been identified by the National Institute of Medicine Medicine and the Israeli police. However, he said that a third body was not that of their 32 -year -old mother, as Hamas had claimed, or any other captive.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu then accused Hamas of having committed a “cruel and diabolical” violation of the cease-fire agreement, which brought a break of several weeks in 15 months of fighting and the progressive liberation Palestinian and Israeli captives.
“We will act with determination to bring Shiri home with all our hostages – both alive and dead – and to guarantee that Hamas pays the high price of this cruel and perverse violation of the agreement,” said Netanyahu.
Hamas had handed over the four bodies, which also included the remains of Captive Lififfz, 83, in the last days of the first phase of the ceasefire in Israel-Hamas.
As part of this phase, six living captives were also to be released by Hamas on Saturday in exchange for 602 Palestinian prisoners and prisoners, said the Palestinian group.
Hamas has identified those who will be released from captivity in Gaza like Eliya Cohen, Omer Shem Tov, Tal Shoham, Omer Wenkert, Hisham Al-Sayed and Avera Mengisto.
Israel, Hamas blames the deaths in captivity
Hamas and Israel have offered opposite stories about how the Bibas and Liffhitz family were killed, putting more stress on the delicate agreement.
The Israeli army said on Friday that intelligence assessments and the medico-legal analysis of Bibas’ children indicated that they had been deliberately killed by their captors. They did not provide more details on the complaint.
Friday, the director of the Gaza government media office again put the blame for deaths in Netanyahu. Hamas had previously announced that the four had been killed in an Israeli air attack in November 2023.
“Netanyahu himself is the one who gave orders for direct and ruthless bombings, and it is he who has the full responsibility to kill her as well as his children with a horrible brutality,” wrote Ismail Al-Thawabta on the social media site.
The Bibas family also put the blame for death on Netanyahu, with the sister-in-law of Shiri Bibas, Ofri Bibas, saying that it was “the responsibility and the obligation of Israeli officials to bring them alive”.
“There is no forgiveness for having abandoned them on October 7, and no forgiveness for having abandoned them in captivity. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, we have not received an apology from you right now, “she said in a statement.
For its part, the Red Cross, which supervised the captive outings, criticized Hamas for publishing the bodies of captives during a public event.
The humanitarian organization told the reuters news agency that it was “concerned and dissatisfied” that the transfer of Thursday bodies had not been led in private.
The latest developments are involved while mediators are looking for a breakthrough in talks on the second phase of the ceasefire.
This period, which has only been accepted by the parties in principle, is supposed to see the release of all the remaining captives in Gaza in exchange for a permanent end in war.
But Mohamad Bazzi, associate professor at New York University, told Tel Aviv Tribune that “enormous public anger has searched inside Israel” about the controversy surrounding the bodies is pressure on Netanyahu of his own government to resume the fighting after the first phase is complete.
Bazzi said the Israeli right had grasped the moment to put pressure for a return to war.
For its part, the removal forum and missing families, one of the main groups representing families of captives held in Gaza, said that they were “horrified and devastated” by the news that the body of Shiri Bibas n ‘ had not been returned.
They called the ceasefire to continue so that the dozens of captives still held in the Palestinian enclave can be released.
“Save them from this nightmare,” the group said in a statement.