Hamas claims youngest Israeli hostage Kfir Bibas has died alongside his mother and brother
news.sky.com
The IDF says it is "assessing the accuracy of the information" after previous false reports that hostages had been killed.

Hamas has claimed its youngest hostage - a 10-month-old boy - has been killed along with his four-year-old brother and their mother.

Shiri Bibas and Kfir and Ariel Bibas were taken during the terror attack on Israel in October and were the highest-profile civilian hostages yet to be freed.

  • pewter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    161·
    7 months ago

    “There have been occasions in the last week or so when hostages who had been declared dead by one of the armed groups in Gaza actually turned out not to have died - and have subsequently been released,” said Bunkall.

    It’s bizarre for an article to quote her here without the article talking about any examples.

    • steventhedev@lemmy.worldEnglish
      93·
      7 months ago

      The only instance of this I can recall off the top of my head is PIJ claiming that Hanna Katzir was killed. Hamas have not publicly announced the death of any hostages in ways that have been confirmed or reported by respectable journalists, but there is lots of propaganda being spread through Telegram and other platforms.

    • porcariasagrada@slrpnk.netEnglish
      46·
      7 months ago

      declaring them dead means they have to give up the bodies. but terrorist think if they declare them dead they can keep them for future demands or exchanges. so both cases are possible but hamas being experineced in this maccabre trade knows that dead means handing over the bodies, otherwise no peace.