1 day 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 ...

22 hours ago · Feb 21 (Reuters) - The Israeli military said on Friday that two bodies released by Hamas had been identified as infant Kfir Bibas and his 4-year-old brother, Ariel Bibas. It said that a third body ...

1 day ago · The Bibas boys were the youngest Israeli hostages, and the only children still held in captivity by Hamas after 100 hostages were released in a short-lived ceasefire agreement in November 2023.

21 hours ago · Israel says it has identified two of the dead bodies returned by Hamas on Thursday as Ariel and Kfir Bibas – but tests show another body that was expected to be that of their mother Shiri is not ...

2 days ago · Yarden Bibas was taken captive separately and released earlier this month. Still, Israeli pronouncements about the family have become increasingly dire, with an official expressing “grave ...

1 day ago · For these few moments, Hamas’s narrative does not matter. Its best-case scenario is to try to convince the world that Israel, while trying to attack Hamas forces, killed the Bibas children in an ...

1 day ago · Hamas released the bodies of four hostages Thursday, including what it said was the remains of a mother and her two young children, members of the Bibas family, whose story came to symbolize the ...

During the 7 October 2023 attacks, part of the broader Gaza war, the Israeli-Argentinian/Peruvian [2] [3] [4] Bibas (Hebrew: בִּיבָּס) family was kidnapped by Palestinian militants from their home in kibbutz Nir Oz, and held hostage in the Gaza Strip.

Feb 19, 2024 · Footage from security cameras in the area of Khan Yunis showing the kidnapping of the Bibas family. Published by the IDF February 19, 2024. (Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit).

Jan 17, 2025 · Kfir Bibas, whose second birthday falls on Saturday, is the youngest of the 251 hostages seized by terrorists during Hamas’s brutal and unprecedented attack on southern Israel more than 15 ...