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The colour orange will never be the same for us,
Israel's official account wrote on social platform X
I’ll tell you, the way to do it is my plan. I think that’s the plan that really works. But I’m not forcing it. I’m just going to sit back and recommend it,
Trump said in a Fox News interview
We will act with determination to bring Shiri home along with all our hostages, both living and dead, and ensure that Hamas pays the full price for this cruel and evil violation of the agreement,
he continued
The cruelty of the Hamas monsters knows no bounds. Not only did they kidnap the father, Yarden Bibas, the young mother, Shiri, and their two small babies. In an unspeakably cynical manner, they did not return Shiri to her little children, the little angels, and they put the body of a Gazan woman in a coffin,
the Israeli leader saidWe point out the possibility of an error or overlap in the bodies, which may be the result of the occupation targeting and bombing the place where the family was with other Palestinians,
Hamas saidTonight, at the request of the parties, an ICRC team received human remains, which were then transferred to Israeli authorities, ... The ICRC cannot confirm any additional details.”
the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Friday, addingIt has been one of the saddest days that I can remember in my entire life
said Elisheva Flamm Oren, a 66-year-old social worker
There is no forgiveness for abandoning them on October 7, and no forgiveness for abandoning them in captivity,
Ofri Bibas said
Who kidnaps a little boy and a baby and murders them? Monsters. That's who,
Netanyahu saidThe hostages must be released,
he addedThere are voices about totally destroying Gaza and all this. For me, it's not only inappropriate, it's immoral,
he saidWe confirm that it is not in our values or our interest to keep any bodies or not to abide by the covenants and agreements that we sign on,
Naim said
Here, we would like to remind the world that we received thousands of bodies from the Zionist enemy in blue bags without any identification on them and without any respect for their humanity, ... and we did not hear any condemnation of these crimes from international officials and the official western media did not care about Palestinian human rights."
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It's horrific. It's a clear violation. And if I have one piece of advice for Hamas now, it's not only do you need to release [Shiri's] body immediately, but we have the bodies of four Americans that are still there and we have one American, Edan Alexander, ... he needs to come home. And if I were them, I'd release everybody, or they are going to face total annihilation right now."
U.S. envoy for hostages Adam Boehler during an interview with CNN on Friday
Contrary to Hamas's lies, Ariel and Kfir were not killed in an airstrike,
IDF spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said in a statement issued FridayIn the midst of the Zionist genocide that led to the killing of thousands of innocent Palestinian children and women, and the destruction of the Gaza Strip and all aspects of life in it, some unfortunate mistakes may occur especially since the Zionist bombing resulted in corpses of Israeli prisoners mixing with corpses of Palestinians, thousands of whom are still under the rubble,
Hamas spokesperson and Political Bureau member Basem Naim said in a statement shared with NewsweekAfterwards, they committed horrific acts to cover up these atrocities,
the IDF continuedWe've been very adamant throughout this whole process that we're committed to the agreement, but when they violate it, we will not accept it."
He said
Was baby Kfir learning to walk? Did he begin to speak? Could Ariel play with toys, or was childhood stolen from him entirely?”
As The Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief, Zvika Klein, publicly asked
We have no interest in retaining any bodies. We have demonstrated full compliance with the agreement in recent days and remain committed to all its terms."
Hamas, in a statement