Shiri’s two sons, Ariel and Kfir, have been identified among the dead, with Israeli officials saying they were murdered by Hamas terrorists using their ‘bare hands’
By Lorin Bell-Cross
Oran Almog was only 10 when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a Haifa restaurant and killed his family
By Imogen Garfinkel
IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said that Yarden Bibas ‘wanted the world to know’ what happened to his sons
By Ellie Grant
Two of the six hostages have been in Hamas captivity for a decade
By Rosa Doherty
It is not the silence itself that is earth-shattering. It is the discretion to be silent about this, but not of other’s suffering.
The Israeli government accused Hamas of ‘violating every basic moral value’
By JC Reporter
The procession through central London ended in a memorial service
By Daniel Ben-David
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By Nicole Lampert
The sick handover of a dead family in Gaza today should have caused global uproar
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Authorities are still working to confirm the identity of the other three bodies, though they are believed to be those of the Bibas children and their mother
By Nathan Jeffay
Lifshitz was one of the oldest hostages taken and previously volunteered driving Palestinians to Israeli hospitals
Ariel and Kfir were the youngest hostages taken in Gaza on October 7 and their bodies will be returned to Israel by Hamas tomorrow
‘Our hearts are with the grieving families’, the prime minister’s office said
The terror group is reportedly demanding a full IDF withdrawal from Gaza and permanent ceasefire in return
‘I can’t find the words to describe what it felt like to hug him again’
The two boys were the youngest hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7 and were aged just four and nine months at the time
By Jacob Jaffa
The families of those still held in Gaza have called on the Israeli government to continue negotiations until all hostages are freed, despite pressure within the government to back out of the ceasefire