Israel claims body of one of four hostages not of kidnapped woman, not even…, furious Netanyahu pledges…

Jerusalem/Tel Aviv: As part of the ceasefire and prisoner-hostage deal between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian community on Thursday, February 20, returned the bodies of four hostages to Israel from Gaza. The needless hostages incorporated an elderly man, Oded Lifshitz, who had been a journalist and peace activist along with three others acknowledged to be a mother and two younger boys who had been taken hostages following the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.

The Israeli protection force acknowledged on Friday, 21 February 2025 that the remains of two child hostages had been identified. Nonetheless, the other body became no longer of the boys’ mother.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in a statement identified the two boys as toddler Kfir Bibas and 4-yr-long-established Ariel Bibas whereas the further body didn't belong to their mother Shiri Bibas or any other Israeli hostage.

“The further body is never any longer that of their mother, Shiri, nor that of any other Israeli hostage,” acknowledged IDF whereas the id of the body remains unknown.

Hamas has claimed that the two boys and their mother had died in an Israeli airstrike in November 2023, but Israeli authorities didn't verify their deaths.

The return of the hostages became part of the change below last month’s Gaza ceasefire agreement, brokered with toughen from the US, Qatar, and Egypt.

Thursday’s change will likely be followed by the liberate of six living hostages on Saturday, February 22 in change for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, primarily ladies folks and minors detained by Israeli forces real through the warfare.

The 2d part of negotiations is expected to present consideration to the liberate of around 60 remaining hostages and Israel’s beefy troop withdrawal from Gaza to finish the warfare is location to open up rapidly.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed revenge in opposition to Hamas on Thursday. Israel has acknowledged that about 250 hostages had been taken in the October 2023 attack.

UN Secretary-Total Antonio Guterres has condemned the parading of bodies and exhibiting of the coffins of the deceased hostages describing it as abhorrent and appalling.

The Hamas attack on Israel precipitated almost about 1,200 deaths, with 251 folks taken hostage, in step with Israeli figures. In response, Israel’s protection force advertising and marketing campaign in Gaza has killed about 48,000 folks, in step with Palestinian health officers.

(With IANS inputs)