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JERUSALEM — Until the end, the Bibas family refused to lose hope that their loved ones held captive in Gaza - Shiri, a young mother, and her two red-headed boys - would return home to Israel alive.

Israel has identified three of the bodies as hostages and said the other was of an unknown person. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana) This undated photo provided by Hostages Family Forum shows Shiri ...

JERUSALEM - Israel’s Bibas family accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Feb 21 of failing to protect their loved ones during Hamas’ 2023 attack and of failing to bring them home.

Nonsense. Of course you do. We are family. That’s the truth. The relationship between Diaspora Jewry and Israel, is not instrumental. Its not transactional. It’s a story of family. And so it ...

Shiri's husband, Yarden Bibas, was also seized from the kibbutz but taken separately from the family. He was released on Feb 1 as part of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire that took effect a little over ...

Israel’s defense minister, Israel Katz, said that 40,000 Palestinian residents displaced from militant hotbeds would not be allowed to return to their homes. By Isabel Kershner Reporting from ...

The Israeli military acknowledged on Friday it knew the Bibas family was dead in captivity ... during the Hamas-led 7 October 2023 attack on Israel. Their father, Yarden Bibas, was released ...

For some Israelis, the fate of the Bibas family underlined the need to restart the war to defeat Hamas once and for all. The current truce is set to elapse in early March unless Hamas and Israel ...

The Bibas family thanked Israelis for their ongoing ... "The warm embrace, the love and the strength that you have sent us from all over Israel and the world strength us and accompany us during ...

(Heidi Levine for The Washington Post) 3 min The family of Shiri Bibas confirmed on Saturday that her body has been returned to Israel and that she was killed in Gaza, after the return of an ...

the Bibas family refused to lose hope that their loved ones held captive in Gaza — Shiri, a young mother, and her two red-headed boys — would return home to Israel alive. Even when Hamas said ...