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Those who have a normal sense of right and wrong — in other words, not pro-Hamas college dupes, the Hadid sisters, or Rashida Tlaib — cheered when they learned that Hamas released nine children. But the fate of the Bibas children is murky at best, dark at worst.
The two Bibas brothers — 10-month-old Kfir and 4-year-old Ariel — are still in captivity, along with their parents Yarden and Shiri. Below is a video of the moment that Hamas kidnapped the two boys and their mother on October 7. The look of horror on her face is palpable. (The clip has no sound. But it doesn’t need sound to convey the terror.)
However, while Hamas released other children on Monday, neither Ariel nor Kfir — the youngest hostage — were among that group. In fact, Hamas had handed the family over to a separate Palestinian terror group in Gaza.
On Monday night, the Israeli Defense Force announced the transfer of the family. No one knows exactly who has custody of the Bibas family, although some reports indicate that the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a Marxist-Leninist terror group funded by Iran, holds them.
IDF Arabic-language spokesman Avichai Adraee posted at X:
Children and babies under the age of one who have not seen the light of day for more than fifty days are being held captive by Hamas, [who] treats some of them like loot and in some places has transferred them to other terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile, Ofri Bibas, aunt of the two boys and sister of father Yarden, pleaded for their return. She also worries that baby Kfir, who receives baby formula, isn’t getting the nourishment he needs:
We don’t know where they’ve been held. From what we know, they are kept underground. We’re really worried about the 10-month-old baby with formula as the main diet.
We call upon the Israeli government and Qatar and Egypt, everybody who is involved in these negotiations and this deal, to do whatever they can to include our family in this deal and to release them as soon as possible.
But how can anyone expect terrorists to negotiate in a rational manner?
If indeed the PFLP has received the Bibas family, it’s likely part of a sadistic trick to play on Israel.
IDF spokesman Andraee explained at X:
For example, the Bibas family, the two red-haired children ‘The Reds,’ who were kidnapped from their home in Nir Oz by a member of the Hamas terrorist organization and are being held in the Khan Yunis area by one of the Palestinian factions.
The Khan Yunis region will be the target of Israeli forces once the temporary ceasefire terminates. In fact, a week ago Israel urged Palestinian residents to leave since Khan Yunis will be a site of renewed fighting. As Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant told IDF troops on Monday, We will fight in the entire strip.
So what better way to get Israel to extend the ceasefire than to play on their emotions by placing a family with two babies into harms way? As Jim Geraghty wrote at National Review:
When the deadline arrives, will the Israelis be willing to get up from the table and restart military operations? Or will there be too much pressure to make more concessions to get at least a few more hostages released?
And David Horowitz noted at the Times of Israel:
…the ground operation is certainly not even half-completed, with central and southern Gaza yet to be tackled, notably including Hamas strongholds such as Khan Younis. And the logistics of fighting in southern Gaza … will present immense challenges to the IDF, even as almost all of the international community steps up pressure for a permanent ceasefire.
Even more daunting is this bit of information from Horowitz:
For now, it would seem, seven weeks into the Israeli effort to tear it apart, Hamas seems to be holding together quite effectively. The best estimate is that perhaps 4,000-5,000 of its gunmen are dead; that leaves another 20,000-25,000 who are not.
Meanwhile, most of the estimated 240 Israeli hostages remain in the hands of terrorists. Terrorists who play a sick game by giving babies to another group of murderous fanatics for use as pawns in a sadistic chess game.
Featured image: Collage/Brand X Studio; from screenshots.
GWB says: In fact, Hamas had handed the family over to a separate Palestinian terror group in Gaza.
Well, they claimed to have handed them over.
And, as of this morning, they claim they are actually dead (killed in an Israeli airstrike, natch).
the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a Marxist-Leninist terror group funded by Iran,
IOW, just another group of Palestinians practicing their culture.
Oh, interesting flags, btw. The emblem is intended to convey that ugly genocidal phrase, “from the river to the sea, Palestine Jew-free.” Or so it appears to me.
But how can anyone expect terrorists to negotiate in a rational manner?
I think you mean “moral” manner. Because what they’re doing is perfectly rational if your goal is to torture and kill Israelis.
The claims this morning that they are dead makes me wonder which part is the deception (‘taqqiya’ in Arabic). Was it a ruse to say they were handed over to someone else – maybe because they couldn’t find them? Or did the PFLP kill them once it put a target on their foreheads? Or is the deception that they were killed at all, in hopes that it takes pressure off Hamas or maybe allows some future psych warfare? (“Oh look, you thought they were dead, but here they are.”)
(As an aside, any idea on whether them being redheads has anything to do with extra sadistic treatment? I saw it mentioned somewhere, but have seen nothing corroborating the idea.)
No matter which, though, this is just more evidence that there are no real innocents above the age of about 10 in all of Gaza (except the Israelis kidnapped by them), and the right answer is to kill or drive out EVERYONE in Gaza, and annex it under the original “British Mandate”.
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