3 days ago · The body of hostage Shiri Bibas was returned to Israel after Hamas initially sent back the wrong remains.. The Bibas family confirmed Saturday morning the human remains that were returned to ...

Feb 19, 2024 · The IDF on Monday released what it said was recently discovered footage showing mother Shiri Bibas and her two young children surrounded by gunmen in the Gaza Strip hours after they were abducted...

4 days ago · The children's father Yarden Bibas, 34, was released by Hamas on 1 February. Israel has confirmed that the fourth body returned on Thursday was that of veteran peace activist, Oded Lifschitz.

4 days ago · Eylon Keshet, Mr. Bibas’s cousin, described Ariel in November 2023 as a boy who loved being the center of attention and playing with toy tractors and cars. Kfir, he said, was a “chill” baby ...

5 days ago · The Bibas family became a symbol, inside of Israel and around the world. For a year and a half we’ve all been holding our breath, waiting for the Bibas children and their parents to come home. They have come to symbolize all that was lost on that day. Typical Israeli Family. The Bibases lived in Kibbutz Nir Oz, close to the border with Gaza.

4 days ago · The Bibas children inspired art and songs, prayers and protests as an anxious world waited for news of their fate. Kfir would have turned 2 in January. Hamas is expected to release six living ...

During the 7 October 2023 attacks that began the Gaza war, Palestinian militants kidnapped the Bibas (Hebrew: בִּיבָּס) family from their home at kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel.

3 days ago · 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 ...

Jan 29, 2025 · The faces of the Bibas family were burned into the consciousnesses of many beginning on Oct. 7, when footage spread of a terrified Shiri clutching the two young boys as they were abducted to Gaza ...

Jan 31, 2025 · On October 7, 2023, Bibas was kidnapped by Hamas and separated from his wife, Shiri, and their two young children, Ariel, then four years old, and Kfir, nine months old at the time.