Hamas Returns Incorrect Body in Hostage Deal, Threatening Gaza Ceasefire

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Israel Vows Revenge for Hamas Failing to Return Shiri Bibas

The hostage release incident could threaten the fragile cease-fire deal in Gaza.

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Hamas held a cynical and bizarre body handover ceremony. Investigations later determined that the body of two young children, along with their mother, was not handed over by the terrorist organization. Hostages released in six prisoner swaps in recent weeks have also reported on the horrific conditions deep within Hamas' underground tunnel system.

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Israel complains that a false body was handed over to a hostage by the Palestinian organization and uses this to escalate towards Hamas.

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Gaza ceasefire faces new hurdles as Hamas releases bodies of slain hostages, only 3 of 4 identified

On February 20, Hamas released four caskets ostensibly carrying the remains of four Israeli hostages to the Red Cross, but one contained the body of a Palestinian woman. Israel has condemned this as a violation of the ceasefire that began in January. Separately, the IDF redeployed an experienced division that served in Gaza and carried out airstrikes against Hezbollah on the Syria-Lebanon border.

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Hamas’s failure to return Israeli mother’s body strains ceasefire

A tenuous ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has been strained by outrage over Hamas’s alleged transfer of an unknown body to Israel in the place of Shiri Bibas, the Israeli mother kidnapped and killed along with her two infant children during Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack against Israel. Still, the office of Israel’s Prime Minister…

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The two children whose bodies were handed over from Hamas to Israel were murdered, the Israeli military says. The remains of their mother, Shiri Biba, are not among the four bodies that Hamas handed over. Hamas's hostage handovers are now being criticized from several quarters, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Hamas has violated the ceasefire agreement.