Another blow to Kfir Bibas’ family as Hamas offers to exchange bodies of three hostages a day after claiming the baby. His brother and mother were killed in an Israeli bombing

The family of Kfir Bibas, a baby snatched by Hamas and taken to Gaza, faced even more fear today after the terrorists offered to hand over the bodies of three hostages to Israel.

Hamas claimed that Israel had rejected its offer to hand over the three bodies without naming the dead.

But it comes a day after the terrorists claimed – without providing evidence – that the 10-month-old boy, his four-year-old brother Ariel and his mother Shiri Silberman-Bibas, 30, were killed in an Israeli bombing before Friday’s ceasefire. announced.

Kfir’s father Yarden, 34, who was also taken hostage by the terrorists, was not named in the statement.

The Israeli military said yesterday it is investigating Hamas’ claims that the little baby was killed along with his mother and brother while held hostage by the terrorists.

The IDF, which labeled Hamas “cruel and inhuman,” said it had spoken to the Bibas family about the claims, which massively overshadow last-minute negotiations to further extend the ceasefire.

Last night, Kfir’s anguished family expressed hope that Hamas’s claims that the trio had been killed will prove to be a lie, saying they are waiting for the accusations to be refuted by Israeli military officials.

But today Hamas appeared to suggest it was willing to hand over their bodies after offering to exchange the bodies of three hostages. The terrorists claimed that Israel had rejected their offer.

The terrorists have failed to name the dead in their statement and if their claims turn out to be untrue, it will be yet another example of the cruel mind games the terrorists have been using since they launched their barbaric attack on Israel.

The Bibas family, father Yarden, mother Shiri, baby Kfir and four-year-old Ariel, were captured by Hamas terrorists from Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023

The image of the two young boys being carried by their weeping mother, Shiri, as they were marched from their homes was one of the most striking published in the early days of the war between Israel and Hamas. It was hoped they would be released this evening

Video showed the sobbing mother holding Kfir and Ariel as they were kidnapped, as shocked neighbors shouted: “She has a baby.

The world watched in horror as footage emerged on October 7 of Hamas terrorists dragging Shiri and her young family from their home on the Nir Oz Kibbutz to a waiting motorcycle.

Video showed the sobbing mother holding Kfir and Ariel as they were kidnapped, as shocked neighbors shouted: “She has a baby.”

The family has not been heard from since, but there were hopes that Hamas would release them as part of a prisoner swap during the ceasefire between Israel and the terrorist group.

But Hamas claimed yesterday – without providing evidence – that Kfir, Shiri and Ariel were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza in the days before the ceasefire was declared.

If true, this claim could provoke an explosive response from Israel, as the family was among the most prominent civilian hostages yet to be released.

Previously there were fears that nine-year-old Israeli-Irish hostage Emily Hand had been killed by Hamas terrorists, but it later emerged that she was still alive. The schoolgirl, who spent her ninth birthday in captivity, has now been released.

The Israeli military said in a statement last night that it had spoken to Kfir’s family about the claims before condemning Hamas for its “cruelty” and “inhumanity.”

But Hamas claimed today that Israel had rejected the terrorists’ offer to hand over the bodies of three hostages, in an apparent reference to Kfir, Shiri and Ariel.

Earlier this morning, Israel and Hamas struck a last-minute deal to extend their ceasefire for another day, and Washington said it hoped the ceasefire could be extended further to free more hostages and allow aid into Gaza reaches.

But until an agreement was reached on the extension, Hamas blamed Israel for a possible end to the ceasefire.

The terrorists, without providing evidence, accused Israel of “refusing to receive seven women and children detained today, and the bodies of three of the same category of detainees who died as a result of the Zionist bombing of Gaza.”

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