Hamas reports the remains of four Israeli hostages, including an infant

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On Thursday, Hamas said he handed over the remains of four Israeli hostages, including an infant, in a gloomy exchange that signaled progress as part of a shaky ceasefire agreement.

Israeli military will take time to confirm the identity of the deceased, but Hamas said they are brothers – kfir, infant and Ariel, 4 when they were taken hostage – and their mother Bibas, 32 years old, as well as 83 -year -old old activist Adead Lyshitz.

Israeli defense forces confirmed that four shotments of the dead hostages were transferred to the Red Cross International Committee. Israel will release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange as required by the ceasefire agreement.

Hamas has promised to release six live hostages On the eve of the schedule on Saturday, in the hope of reinforcement of negotiations aimed at transforming the temporary ceasefire into a strong truce. Dozens of hostages, living and dead, remain in captivity in Gaza.

The capture of the biba family – whose father was released alive on February 1 in the first stage of the Svop – became a particularly vivid demonstration of Hamas’s cruelty in the attack on October 7, 2023 on southern Israel, which caused this War in gas.

In the propaganda video posted by Hamas, the children took the breast when armed soldiers seized them in Nir Oz Kibbut. Photos of children became ubiquitous on Israeli posters that require the release of hostages.

Lifezitz and his wife, 86-year-old Jacob, were also taken out of their houses near the Bibaban family. Yocheved released Hamas only 16 days into war.

The circumstances around the death of the biba remain uncertain. Since the end of 2023, Hamas claimed that they had died as a result of Israel’s air ticket without providing evidence.

A group of militants repeated this statement on Thursday, conveying the bodies of the Red Cross under the sign that accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and “missiles and Zionist military aircraft” for death.

IDF did not comment on this case, but several families reported that their loved ones may have been unintentional killed by bombing gas, an interview with Israeli media said.

“Output day, day of sorrow,” Netanyahu said on Wednesday night. “We bring home four of our favorite hostages.”

Gaza officials estimate that about 50,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, were killed by an Israeli attack, which destroyed most of the siege enclave. About 1,200 people were killed in Israel in Hamas’s cross -border raid, and about 250 were hostage, Israeli officials reported.

The release on Thursday became the first of the dead hostages and came on the fifth week A six -week ceasefire Last month, he agreed under which Israel released 985 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for 19 live Israeli hostages, the Red Cross reports.

The vast majority of Palestinians were detained in Israel without trial, while dozens were serving life after being convicted in military prisons for killing Israelis.

Thousands of humanitarian gas trucks, including a small number of heavy cars and mobile houses, are starting this week.

Negotiations between Israel and Hamas are aimed at providing a lasting truce in Cairo, mediated by Egypt, Qatar and the United States. But the transaction will require Israel to abandon the gas and Hamas army to release the rest of 60 hostages, many of whom are afraid of the dead.

The Netanyahu ruling coalition depends on the support of the Farm Party, which is bitter against the ceasefire and has promised to restore the attack On Hamas.

The militia group seemed to be threatened with a live hostage during the transfer on Thursday, showing a sign that proclaimed: “Returning the war = the return of your prisoners in the coffins.”

As you know, Hamas was shot dead at least six prisoners last year after a suspect in the Israeli rescue operation in the tunnels where they were held.

At the time, IDF said such an operation continued and that he came across recently killed hostages on a regular patrol.