Hamas Displays 4 Black Coffins Ahead of Hostage Remains Handover
February 20, 2025
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Daniel Orton is an editor on the live news team at Newsweek, based in London, U.K. He was previously a video news editor at the company between 2017 and 2019, before spending several years as a senior video journalist on the social news team at The Wall Street Journal, where he primarily produced short-form and breaking-news videos for the Journal’s X (Twitter) page, with a focus on business, finance and markets. He also produced longer videos for other platforms on a wide range of subjects, from the U.K. royal family’s finances to the cost of tackling climate change. He has also worked for The London Evening Standard, Fox News and Bauer Media.
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Hamas is handing over the bodies of four hostages on Thursday, including a mother and her two children, who have become symbols of the hostage crisis that has gripped Israel since the Gaza war broke out.
The transfer of the bodies is the first such handover of remains by Hamas since its October 7, 2023 attack on Israel triggered the war.
Four coffins were displayed on a stage in front of a banner depicting an altered image of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and members of the Bibas family.
Shiri Bibas and her two children, Ariel and Kfir, have long been feared dead. Kfir was the youngest captive of the 251 hostages taken by Hamas-led militants on October 7 attack, in which some 1,200 people were also killed.
A Palestinian militant group Hamas fighter stands in front of a banner, bearing an altered portrait of Israel’s Prime Minister and the Bibas family, on stage ahead of the handing over the bodies of four… A Palestinian militant group Hamas fighter stands in front of a banner, bearing an altered portrait of Israel’s Prime Minister and the Bibas family, on stage ahead of the handing over the bodies of four Israeli hostages in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza on February 20, 2025.
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All three were killed in an Israeli airstrike early in the war, Hamas has said. The militant group also plans to release the body of Oded Lifshitz, who was 83 when he was abducted.
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