Hamas has released a body it claimed to be that of Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas, whose misidentification in a handover this week threatened to...

DNA testing had found that remains returned a day earlier purportedly of Ms. Bibas, a dead Israeli hostage, were in fact not hers, stirring outrage in Israel.

Hamas said on Friday it was investigating a possible error in identifying human remains handed to Israel under a ceasefire deal as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened retaliation for failing to release the body of hostage Shiri Bibas. Hamas was due to hand over the bodies of Shiri Bibas and…

“We demand that Hamas return Shiri home along with all our hostages,” the Israeli military said.

Feb. 21 (UPI) -- Israel on Friday accused Hamas of a breach of the cease-fire agreement between the warring sides of the "utmost severity" after DNA testing of four sets of hostage remains returned on Thursday showed one of the bodies was not that of Shiri Bibas as Hamas had claimed.

JERUSALEM: Israel's prime minister accused Hamas on Friday (Feb 21) of killing two Israeli children in Gaza and said the militants

Israel on Friday said one of the four bodies returned by Hamas a day earlier is not that of Shiri Bibas, mother of the two young boys whose bodies were handed over Thursday. Israel said it had identified…

Netanyahu vowed revenge on Friday, calling the release of the wrong body a "cruel and malicious violation" of the ceasefire agreement

The incident raised new doubts about the future of the fragile ceasefire deal, which has paused over 15 months of war but is nearing the end of its first phase.

Hamas handed over the bodies of Israeli infant Kfir Bibas and his four-year-old brother Ariel, the two youngest captives taken by Hamas in their October 7, 2023 attack and among the most potent symbols of the trauma inflicted that day. Analysis by FRANCE 24 correspondent in Jerusalem, Noga Tarnopolsky, and Philip Turle, FRANCE 24 international affairs editor.

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Palestinian militant group Hamas were "monsters" for having held a public handover ceremony for the bodies of four hostages repatriated to Israel Thursday.…

In a statement on February 21, Hamas said it would “conduct a thorough review” of the information regarding the body. It suggested a possible mix-up of remains might have occurred due to Israeli bombing of the area where the Israeli hostages were being held because other Palestinians were also present.

Israel was still in shock Friday after the revelation that one of the bodies purportedly belonging to four dead hostages being returned by Hamas was in fact an unknown woman. Hamas later handed over…

Israel confirmed on Wednesday that the bodies of Ariel and Kfir Bibas and their mother Shiri will be returned from Gaza by Hamas on Thursday as part of the ceasefire agreement. The two boys, 4 years…

Hamas's top negotiator said on Tuesday the militant group will release the bodies of four dead captives on Thursday and six living Israeli hostages on Saturday. Senior Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya said the…

Speaking to CNN, Boehler condemned Hamas’ decision to release the wrong body, calling it “horrific” and a “clear violation” of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. 

GAZA CITY: A Hamas official told AFP on Friday (Feb 21) that it was likely the body of captive Shiri Bibas had been "mistakenly mixed" with others who were killed and buried under the rubble in Gaza. "It is likely that Mrs Bibas' body was mistakenly mixed with others found under the rubbl

A Hamas official said Wednesday that Hamas is ready to release all the remaining hostages in one batch during the second phase of the ceasefire agreement rather than in stages. The fragile Gaza truce…

The six are the last living hostages from a group of 33 due to be freed in the first stage of the ceasefire deal agreed last month between Israel and Hamas.

A body Hamas released as part of the deal was found to not be that of an Israeli mother of two young boys.

Hamas handed over the bodies of Israeli infant Kfir Bibas and his four-year-old brother Ariel, the two youngest captives taken by Hamas in their October 7, 2023 attack and among the most potent symbols of the trauma inflicted that day. Story by David Gilberg and Charlotte Hughes.

Tragedy erupted in Israel as authorities claimed that Hamas provided the wrong body of a Palestinian woman from Gaza instead of Shiri Bibas yesterday, as part of the captive-prisoner agreement under the ceasefire.

The remains of a woman killed while in captivity by Hamas was supposedly handed over to Israel on Friday, a day after her body was supposed to be brought back.

Hamas has said Shiri Bibas’ remains were likely “mistakenly mixed” with those of others buried under rubble in Gaza.

“All the civilian captives were alive at that time,” said Taher Al-Nunu

Hamas will return the bodies of four Israelis that were taken hostage on the October 7, 2023 attacks on Thursday, setting up what Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called a "heartbreaking" day for Israel. Among the four hostages are Ariel and Kfir Bibas, who were 4 years old and 9 months old when they were taken captive, their mother Shiri, and Oded Lifshitz, who was 83 when he was abducted.

Daijiworld Media Network – Tel Aviv Tel Aviv, Feb 21: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have confirmed that Hamas terrorists brutally murdered Ariel and Kfir Bibas while holding them captive in Gaza, weeks after their abduction on October 7, 2023. In a televised statement, IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said, .....

Hamas on Thursday released the bodies of four Israeli hostages, said to include a mother and her two children who have long been feared dead and had come to embody the nation's agony following the Oct. 7, 2023, attack. Story by Delano D'Souza.

Hamas released the bodies of four Israeli hostages, said to include a mother and her two children who have long been feared dead and had come to embody the nation’s agony following the Oct. 7, 2023, attack. Analysis by Dr. Ori Goldberg, Israeli political commentator.