Kaffir Bibas was not yet nine months old on October 7 when Hamas forces attacked Nir Oz, a kibbutz in southern Israel near the Gaza Strip. A symbolic anniversary was celebrated in his farming village.
Several hundred people gathered in a square in Tel Aviv for a large release of orange balloons this Thursday, January 18. A date that has become symbolic since the attacks by Hamas in Israel. It is actually the first birthday of Kaffir Bibas, the youngest hostage in Gaza, according to the Israeli army.
The little red-haired child, kidnapped along with his 4-year-old brother Ariel and his parents on October 7, has become one of the faces of the hostages still held by Hamas.
Reported dead by Hamas, no confirmation from IDF
It is in the agricultural village of Nir Oz that the youngest of some 250 hostages taken by force by Hamas and its allies in the tiny Palestinian territory should celebrate his first birthday on January 18. Today there was a symbolic birthday, while there is no news of Bibas’s children.
“We have the last two youngest children in Gaza, we have to consider that they are alive and treat them as if they are alive to bring them back,” Yossi Snyder, cousin of Shiri Bibas’ mother, told Kfir’s BFMTV. .
Hamas, which explained that it had “transferred” the Bibas family to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, announced the death of the child and his family in Israeli bombardment during a humanitarian ceasefire last November. Israeli authorities have not confirmed the family’s death.
“Several times a day we talk to diplomats, influential people… We ask the whole world, we ask all the questions to try to understand, but no, since October 7 we have no information, no news. They are completely invisible. done,” Yossi Snyder continued.
“We are all afraid of what might happen to them”
In Hamas propaganda images, Shiri Bibas is seen with her two children, captured and surrounded by armed men while her husband Yarden is taken away, bloodied.
Yarden Bibas, who reappears in a Hamas propaganda video on November 30, is still alive but in a very bad mental state, according to the recently freed hostage, who said she was pressured to reveal the deaths of her wife and two children. was done. According to All Israel news.
“We’re all afraid of what might happen to them there,” Yossi Snyder testified. Parents also want “the world to wake up and cry with us”.
“It’s time to wake up, you can understand who our enemy is, you can learn from us and what they have done to us,” concluded Yossi Snyder.
On October 7, 2023, about 250 people were taken hostage to Gaza. While about a hundred of them were released as part of a ceasefire that concluded in late November, 132 were detained, 27 of whom are believed to have died. authorities.
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