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"No match was found for any other hostage. This is an anonymous, unidentified body,” the Israel Defense Forces said.

In November 2023, without providing evidence, Hamas claimed that the children—then 4 years old and 10 months old—along with their mother, had died in an Israeli airstrike.

Hamas returned the bodies of four Israeli hostages on Thursday, of four Israeli hostages, including Kfir and Ariel and their mother, Shiri Bibas

Israel Defence Force (IDF) claimed that the forensic reports of Ariel and Kfir Bibas suggested that Hamas killed both children with bare hands. The Palestinian group initially said that the two children and their mother,

Hamas terrorists brutally murdered Israeli brothers Ariel and Kfir Bibas with their bare hands, Israel declared Friday — despite the terrorist group long claiming the youngsters were killed in a targeted airstrike carried out by the Jewish state.

The revelation comes after Hamas failed to return the body of Shiri Bibas together with her two sons in violation of the cease-fire agreement.

Hamas fighters in the Gaza Strip killed brothers Ariel and Kfir Bibas only weeks after they were kidnapped during the terrorists’ Oct. 7, 2023, rampage into southern Israel. A forensic examination of Ariel,