The current deal being discussed is an Egyptian proposal which will release around 33 female, ill, and elderly hostages in exchange for a significant amount of terrorists, a return to Northern Gaza, and a temporary ceasefire of one day per hostage. Since Hamas is now desperate to avoid an IDF entry to Rafah, it appears as though they are seriously considering the deal, and might accept it.
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Israel War Update – Days 503-504
The forensics team, in combination with intelligence known to the IDF, also found that the three hostages had been murdered by their terrorist captors. Despite Hamas claims that the Bibas children were killed in an IDF airstrike, there was clear evidence that the children were brutally and intentionally murdered in November 2023. Oded Lifshitz was similarly murdered by his Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas captors.
Israel War Update – Day 507
Yarden Bibas, the father, asked that the world be told what Hamas did to his children. Forensic sciences can determine the cause of death, even in an aged body. The doctors at the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute, who studied the bodies of Shiri Bibas and her babies, found that they were killed by their captors around ten days into captivity. The children were killed by hand. The doctors who studied the children’s bodies were horrified and deeply traumatized by what was done to them—and these are the same professionals who already worked on the bodies of October 7th victims.