Just what happened to Shiri Bibas and her two children after they were kidnapped on October 7, 2023, has become a source of torment for their family and millions of Israelis. The two boys and their mother were not released from Gaza during the temporary truce in late November 2023, even though the deal agreed between Israel and Hamas called for all women and children to be set free. The Bibas family clung to hope that they might still be alive even though Hamas announced on November 29, 2023, that they had been killed in an Israeli airstrike. The message from the military wing of Hamas merely said that it “announces the killing of 3 Zionist detainees as a result of a previous Zionist bombing of the Gaza Strip.” No evidence was produced, and the Israeli government said it was looking into the claim but never confirmed it. It was…
