Netanyahu says Hamas will pay ‘full price’ for failing to return remains of Shiri Bibas

Published February 21, 2025 11:06am ET



Israeli leaders expressed outrage about the “cruelty of the Hamas monsters” after the terrorist group handed over the anonymous body of a Palestinian woman during a recent prisoner exchange instead of the promised remains of Shiri Bibas, a dead Jewish hostage.

In accordance with a six-week ceasefire deal reached in January, Hamas released the bodies of four Israeli hostages on Thursday. While identities of the elderly Oded Lifschitz and two young children, Airel Bibas and Kfir Bibas, were confirmed, the supposed remains of their mother, Shiri Bibas, were determined by Israeli officials to be, in fact, the body of an unrelated Gazan woman. 

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