Hamas informed Israel that the Bibas boys and their mother Shiri had been killed in an airstrike in November 2023. This was not believed at the time and one of the reasons the ceasefire failed then.
Now, we know from the state of the remains that the boys’ bodies have been dead at least since November 2023, so we know the time of death might not be a lie.
15 months of decomposition would erase evidence of killing “with their bare hands” unless they were refrigerated? I am not sure if there was the electricity to accomplish that over a very hot summer in 2024. I think it’s best to wait for a formally published forensic report to know specific probable causes of death.
The staging of the handover was so overtly propagandist it was infantile. Bibi as Count Dracula isn’t fooling anyone. At least each body had a coffin. I almost expected to see the same sort of plastic hospital body bags that IDF has used to deliver very decomposed disappeared people back to Gaza in.