KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip: Hamas militants on Thursday displayed 4 black coffins on a stage in southern Gaza’s Khan Yunis forward of the handover of the our bodies of 4 Israeli hostages to the Crimson Cross, an AFP journalist reported.
Every casket was proven with a photograph of a physique, together with Shiri Bibas, her two younger sons Kfir and Ariel, and a fourth captive, Oded Lifshitz.
Crimson Cross loaded coffins in autos after Hamas handed over useless hostages, an AFP journalist reported.
The stays launched from the Gaza Strip are of Shiri Bibas and her two kids, Ariel and Kfir. Kfir was the youngest captive taken that day. Hamas has mentioned all three have been killed in an Israeli airstrike early within the conflict.
1000’s of individuals, together with giant numbers of masked and armed fighters from Hamas and different factions, gathered on the handover web site on the outskirts of the southern Gaza metropolis of Khan Younis.
Israeli channels didn’t broadcast the handover, and there have been no plans to point out it stay in Hostage Sq. in Tel Aviv, the place Israelis have gathered to observe the discharge of dwelling hostages.
Hamas is about to free six dwelling hostages on Saturday in trade for a whole lot of Palestinian prisoners, and says it can launch 4 extra our bodies subsequent week, finishing the ceasefire’s first part. That can go away the militants with some 60 hostages, all males, round half of whom are believed to be useless.