Spokesman said Yarden Bibas insisted he tell the world the horrific truth; Hamas professes surprise after body of Gazan woman sent to Israel in place of Shiri Bibas, names 6 living hostages to be freed Saturday The post IDF: Captors murdered children Ariel and Kfir Bibas ‘in cold blood’ with ‘their bare hands’ appeared first on The Times of Israel.

"No match was found for any other hostage. This is an anonymous, unidentified body,” the Israel Defense Forces said.

In November 2023, without providing evidence, Hamas claimed that the children—then 4 years old and 10 months old—along with their mother, had died in an Israeli airstrike.