2023-12-01 04:51:00
Hamas assured this Wednesday that Kfir Bibasthe 10-month-old Argentine baby, his four-year-old brother Ariel and his mother Shirli Silberman died during captivity, as a result of an alleged explosion generated by Israeli forces. The Israel Defense Forces spokesperson insisted that this information is not confirmed, while A short film that tells the family’s hard story went viral on the networks.
The Wiesenthal Center for Latin America shared the documentary video made by Israeli journalist Itai Engel. The material begins with an image of the family home made up of Shiri Silberman, Yarden Bibas and their young childrenincluding the baby whose image became a symbol of the kidnapped, because it was the youngest hostage in this conflict. Quickly, the video cuts to archive images of the moment in which Ariel Bibas met his newborn brother.
The images of this family’s daily life are interspersed with the chilling shots of their house located in the Nir Oz kibbutz following the attack on October 7: disorganized, full of gunshots and absences. The story is narrated by the woman’s older sister who remains missing and apparently deceased. Dana Silberman She remembers their childhood together and details an intimate life of great closeness between them and with their parents, who lived in the same kibbutz.
José Luis Silberman He was an Argentine socialist plastic artist who went into exile in 1976 to Israel, where he met his partner, Margit Schneider, from Peru. Together they had Dana and Shiri and were also kidnapped during the Hamas attack. Shortly followingwards it was confirmed that they were murdered.. The pets of both families besieged by the terrorist group were also auctioned off during the attack.
“We were a very small and united family, to this day we are. Especially today,” Dana Silberman narrates in the video. His family went through the terror and uncertainty of not knowing if they would survive and the painful grief experienced by those who have their loved ones kidnapped. The visual material, in large part, was shared by Hamas itself, which was publishing its attack on October 7. There the painful image of a desperate Shiri Silberman stands out, with Kfir and Ariel at her side, in the last moments in which she saw them alive.
Images of Yarden Drinks, who is seen surrounded by Palestinians, clutching his head with both hands, covered in blood. The man was separated from his family and is the only member of whom there is evidence of life. In fact, this Thursday the 30th, it was learned that Hamas released a video starring Yarden Bibas in which He cries and, speaking to the camera, blames Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whether under threat or not, for an Israeli bombing, it is unknown. on the Gaza Strip occurred before the start of the truce.
“Hamas offered to take the bodies for burial in Israel, but you refused. They are the only thing I have in life. I ask you to take the bodies to bury them in Israel“, expresses Kfir and Ariel’s father. Yarden refers to the three bodies that Hamas would have offered to Israel as part of the hostage exchange this Thursday, implying that they were actually his family. Israel allegedly refused to accept the bodies as part of the deal, because they would have replaced three live hostages, which are priority.
Israel Defense Forces spokesman Daniel Hagari described the Yarden Bibas video as an attempt to “psychological horror” by Hamas. Hagari expressed solidarity with Yarden and the entire Bibas family, but noted that Hamas’ claim regarding the death of Yarden’s wife, Shiri, and her two young children “not yet verified”.
The Palestinian campaign to prevent the release of the Silberman Bibas family
According to Hamas, Shirli Bibas and her two young children were killed by an explosion in the Gaza Strip, following an alleged explosion generated by Israeli forces. The woman’s first cousin, Yifat Zailerm, explained that they have not heard from any of them for 54 days and that they feel “despair” when seeing that the names of their loved ones were not among the fourth group of hostages released by the agreement sealed between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas.
Pressure on Hamas not to release the 10-month-old baby and his older brother, just four years old, was felt throughout posts from the Palestinian community on the social network X (exTwitter) where They consider minors as “the most important assets” to be able to negotiate with Israel.
Insufficient food, little light and a lot of silence: the first testimonies of the hostages freed by Hamas
On the seventh day of the truce agreement, the army and the prime minister’s office of the Hebrew State announced that a new group of six Israelis were freed in Gaza and arrived in Israel, thus joining two other hostages released hours earlier. Israel subsequently released 30 Palestinians – seven women and 23 minors – detained in the country’s prisons, the Israeli Prison Authority announced.
Since November 24, the truce agreement has allowed the release of 80 Israeli hostages and the release of 210 Palestiniansto which another 30 should be added. In addition, more than 20 foreign hostages, mostly Thais living in Israel, were released outside the framework of the agreement.
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