Israel releases a video of the Bibas family’s mother and children on their first day of captivity in Gaza

The Israeli army released this Monday photos found in Gaza where it claims to have seen Shiri Bibas, Woman along with her minor children taken captive by Palestinian militia Ariel and Kefir -a child just one year old-, while he was taken inside the bar on October 7, the first day of his captivity.

An army spokesman said, “We are very concerned about the condition and safety of Shiri and the children, and we are making every effort to obtain more information about their fate.” Daniel Hagari, Regarding the case of this Argentinian-Israeli family whose whereabouts or status are still unknown.

According to him, photo and video images found on a security camera in Gaza show how a mother and her children, surrounded by armed militiamen, are covered with clothes by militiamen in Gaza who take them to the Khan Yunis area on 7 December. Carry through. , the day of the Hamas attack on Israel in which some 1,200 people and 250 others were taken hostage in Gaza.

The case of the Bibas family is one of the most famous of the more than 130 Israelis still held captive in Gaza – thirty of them confirmed dead.

Child kefir He is the youngest hostage who lives in the Strip, and was taken captive along with his four-year-old brother Ariel and his mother, residents of a kibbutz adjacent to Gaza, while the father, Yarden, was abducted separately and transferred to the enclave Was.

None of them were freed in the first week-long prisoner release agreement in late November, where women and children were released en masse, raising concerns about their situation among relatives and friends. Went.

As Hamas announced then, Shiri and her two children were killed in Israeli bombing in Gaza, although Israel assures that it has not yet been able to verify or confirm this information.

According to the army, video obtained and released this Monday shows that he was not dead when he was taken hostage and that he arrived alive in the Khan Younis area of ​​Gaza on October 7.

There, spokesman Hagari said, they were in the hands of another Palestinian militia present in the Strip, Kataib MujahidiN.

“The images show militants wrapping Shiri and her children in sheets, trying to hide them. Little Ariel’s red hair can be seen peeking out from the white cloth.”

After that, “they were forced into a car and taken to another location,” Hagari said.

After the information released by the army, the Israeli Prime Minister. benjamin netanyahu reacted to the images.

“We will bring these kidnappers of infants and mothers to justice. They will not escape,” he said in a statement issued from his office.