According to a statement from her family released on Saturday by the captive relatives’ forum, the human remains that Hamas returned to Israel on Friday have been verified as belonging to former hostage Shiri Bibas.
In addition to her sons, Kfir and Ariel, and another hostage, Oded Lifshitz, Bibas’ remains were anticipated to be among the four hostages that Hamas returned on Thursday. When the boys were captured, they were 4 years old and 9 months old, respectively.
Although Israeli officials’ forensic testing verified that the remains contained those of Lifshitz and the two boys, the fourth body was not Shiri Bibas’s, and it did not resemble the remains of any other Israeli captive, which infuriated and condemned the country.
Our Shiri was taken home last night. “We received the news this morning that we had feared following the identification process at the Institute for Forensic Medicine: our Shiri was murdered in captivity,” the Hostages and Missing Families Forum statement read, referencing the Bibas family.
She has come home to rest with her husband, sister, sons, and her entire family,” the statement continued. For official confirmation of the forensic examination’s findings, CNN has reached out to the Israeli authorities.
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