Bibas family threatens to sue Israeli regime over propaganda ruse
The relatives of Israeli captive Shiri Bibas has demanded that the Israeli regime stop exploiting their family members’ deaths for propaganda purposes, threatening to sue the regime if it continues to publish details of their deaths.
The Bibas family made the request on Wednesday, a day after Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed details of the deaths while speaking before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
The Bibas family called on Netanyahu to stop making statements shifting blame for the deaths of their loved ones, threatening to “take all legal measures at their disposal” if Netanyahu’s cabinet refuses to comply.
Lawyers representing surviving members of the Bibas family also demanded that all parties be instructed “not to contact the family, nor to speak with any professional party entrusted with conducting the examinations regarding the circumstances of the murder and the condition of the deceased.”
Yarden Bibas, 34, his wife, Shiri, 32 and their two sons, Ariel, 4 and Kfir, then 9 months, were taken captive from Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023. Yarden was taken to Gaza separately from the rest of his family.
Efforts to release Shiri and her children during a ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas were unsuccessful. Hamas later announced that they were killed as a result of an Israeli airstrike on Khan Yunis city in the southern Gaza Strip.
Hamas handed over their bodies on Thursday as part of the Gaza ceasefire agreement that took effect on January 19.
The Israeli Institute of Forensic Medicine claimed that Bibas and her children were murdered in captivity.
However, Hamas has said that the mother and her two children were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza in November 2023.
Back in January 2024, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, released video footage in which Yardan Bibas admitted that the regime forces killed members of his family as they indiscriminately targeted neighborhoods in the besieged Gaza Strip.
Israel launched its brutal Gaza onslaught on October 7, 2023, after Hamas carried out its historic operation against the usurping entity in retaliation for its intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.
The Tel Aviv regime failed to achieve its declared objectives of freeing captives and eliminating Hamas despite killing over 48,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, in Gaza.
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