IDF Spokesperson: Additional Body Not That of Shiri Bibas!

The IDF Spokesperson announced overnight that forensic identification efforts by the National Center for Forensic Medicine, in coordination with the Israel Police, confirmed that the additional body received was not that of Shiri Bibas and did not match any other hostage. The remains remain unidentified.

The IDF condemned this as a grave violation by Hamas, which, under the agreement, is obligated to return four fallen hostages. “We demand that Hamas return Shiri along with all of our hostages,” the IDF Spokesperson stated in an official release.

Additionally, IDF officials informed the Bibas family that their loved ones, Ariel and Kfir Bibas, have been identified.

According to expert assessments, based on intelligence and forensic evidence, Ariel and Kfir Bibas were brutally murdered by terrorists in captivity in November 2023.

Ariel Bibas, four years old at the time of his death, and Kfir Bibas, just ten months old, were abducted along with their mother, Shiri Bibas, from their home in Nir Oz. Their father, Yarden Bibas, was taken earlier while trying to protect them. Yarden was released as part of a hostage exchange agreement on February 1, 2025.