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Breaking News - Shiri Bibas has not been returned

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AniBocha · 20/02/2025 23:38

https://news.sky.com/story/israel-says-it-has-not-received-hostages-remains-and-hamas-handed-over-unidentified-body-13313681

As if the anguish isn't enough!

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AmadeustheAlpaca · 21/02/2025 21:47

EmilyDickinson · 21/02/2025 13:16

It must be heartbreaking for the families of hostages to know that their loved ones are dead. It must be terrible to wait to receive their bodies and then for the wrong body to be given to them must give cause incredible sorrow and anger.

It troubles me though that the firm belief seems to be that Shiri Bibas and her children were murdered and the body of a Palestinian woman was deliberately handed over. That may be true - I don’t know. I feel like we should try and wait for more information. I don’t really understand what could possibly be gained by handing over the wrong body?

Is it possible that Shiri Bibas was killed in an Israeli airstrike as thousands of people living in Gaza have been? Bombs do not distinguish between hostages and Palestinians. I understand that Hamas has said for a year that she died in an air strike. Is it possible when retrieving the bodies from the rubble it was not possible (without DNA testing) to tell who was who?

No I don't believe in ethnic cleaning, what nonsense are you referring to? Palestinians have said that their mission statement is to get rid of Jews and Infidels. As an Infidel I don't want to be murdered or ethnically cleansed.
It's been proven that the beautiful Bibas children were murdered by someone with their bare hands and even if they'd been killed by an airstrike - which they weren't - Hanas would still be the murderers because they were the ones holding them hostage against their will.
Cut out the crap @EmilyDickinson

Bells3032 · 21/02/2025 21:46

LoremIpsumCici · 21/02/2025 18:53

The death tolls are heavily scrutinised by outside experts though. Last year a lancet study estimated that the deaths are likely undercounted by a factor of 4
https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3.pdf

Firstly, figures haven't been highly scrutinised because everyone has been working off the same list - one provided by Hamas.

Secondly, that is not a Lancet "study". it is a letter to the Lancet that was published. There is no peer review process in this article. It's just a letter with no evidence to back it up. It also says "if diseases etc take hold" and those diseases didn't. you wanna know why? Cos Israel rolled out an innoculation programme. I could also write the Lancet and claim that 70 million Jews will be murdered if they don't get rid of Hamas. Which is obviously total rubbish - though only due to the fact there are only 15m Jews worldwide

Liv999 · 21/02/2025 21:36

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She's not defending anything though, she's said both sides lie which is a fact

EsmaCannonball · 21/02/2025 21:19

The first wife of Helen Bailey's murderer was cremated and yet, many years after her death, pathologists were able to establish that she had either been strangled or suffocated from brain tissue that she had donated to medical science. There are multiple ways to ascertain strangulation.

That aside, the Conflict in the Middle East board brings out the most despicable people on Mumsnet. Honestly, the absolute worst.

upinaballoon · 21/02/2025 21:17

EdithStourton · 21/02/2025 19:00

x-post with @ChardonnaysBeastlyCat

Thank you, both. I've learned something there.

inamarina · 21/02/2025 20:34

LoremIpsumCici · 21/02/2025 19:25

No. I am waiting for Abu Kabir’s forensic report. I am not believing one narrative over another.

Are you equally sceptical about the numbers of civilian deaths published by the Health Ministry in Gaza?

Paniconthedancefloor · 21/02/2025 20:33

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coxesorangepippin · 21/02/2025 19:54

Years ago, probably 40 years ago when I was a teenager and had hopes that the world would be a much better place in the future, I

^

Same reflection

coxesorangepippin · 21/02/2025 19:53

I can't get over the baying horde when those poor confins were released

Am I missing something? Those are people, human beings in there

BaMamma · 21/02/2025 19:48

EasternStandard · 21/02/2025 19:46

Just read back

They lied?

It's what they do.

EasternStandard · 21/02/2025 19:46

Just read back

They lied?

EasternStandard · 21/02/2025 19:44

Abhorrent and cruel, and the way the little children died

I'm so sad and angry

How did Hamas say they had died? Earlier, did they release a statement

Yogre · 21/02/2025 19:36

AniBocha · 21/02/2025 18:41

When the terrorists organisation that is the hamas health ministry indicate civilian deaths there are no such outcries by pro gazan supporters about the fact these are unverified.

Because the useful idiots are just that, idiots.

Hamas can accurately tell that 2001.5 people have died in the last two hours...don't think about the fact it takes coordinated effort and sometimes many weeks for a civilised government to count the dead from disasters on that scale.

It has been surprising to see the amount of people that first fell for terrorist propaganda spread online (thankfully most seem to be snapping out if it as the months go on, many just in the last day or two).

They are so blinded by hate that they cannot accept the barbaric terrorist scum are anything but poor misled angry little lambs.

Xenia · 21/02/2025 19:30

Hamas is not to be trusted a single inch. The sooner they have not a single supporter on the planet and don't exist the better.

Peripop · 21/02/2025 19:27

hihelenhi · 21/02/2025 18:51

I find the absolute desperation to believe that Israel & the IDF must be lying (because all Jews lie and can't be trusted, right?) but Hamas somehow can't be even when they've paraded the coffins of those murdered children in front of cheering crowds and blatant anti Semitic propagandist imagery very telling.

A bit like people's refusal to believe that the gleeful bodycam footage taken of the massacres, torture, rapes, brutal murders of Oct 7 (of teenagers at a peace festival, of elderly people at bus stops, of known peace activists and their families in certainly not known to be remotely-right-wing or Netanyahu supporting kibbutzes) could possibly be true of their fondly imagined oppressed Gazan citizens. It's blatant anti-semitism, through and through. They were killed because they were Jews and it happened to be easy BECAUSE many were helping Palestinians and naively thought this was the right thing to do. Apparently not. And there were people in London smiling, cheering and celebrating this massacre as "resistance" while claiming to be "left wing" and somehow on the right side of history. Oh, and Israel's existence and its location doesn't exist in a vacuum either. (And historically included violent displacement from their own land by whom?)

Except that that isnt what i've said - i believe either or both sides could be lying.

ArtTheClown · 21/02/2025 19:25

What, two falling bits of debris hit the two young children in exactly the way as to fracture a tiny bone inside their throat?

Surely more plausible than Jews telling the truth though, right?

LoremIpsumCici · 21/02/2025 19:25

inamarina · 21/02/2025 19:20

Hamas informed Israel that the Bibas boys and their mother Shiri had been killed in an airstrike in November 2023.

the boys’ bodies have been dead at least since November 2023, so we know the time of death might not be a lie.

So because there were air strikes happening around that time it’s easier to believe the Bibas children died during one of those rather being murdered by the same people who murdered over a thousand people from the same community as the children only a month previously?

No. I am waiting for Abu Kabir’s forensic report. I am not believing one narrative over another.

LoremIpsumCici · 21/02/2025 19:24

There has been no report of their hyoid bones broken or otherwise.
While in Gaza there were hundreds of different ways to die/be killed.

Daniel Hagari, the IDF spokesperson who announced this news, has been grossly mistaken before in his hurried press releases, so yes, I will wait to be sure. Remember the Hamas guard roster that was a calendar? Remember the Hamas command and control centre with tunnel that was an access shaft to a water reservoir?

The bodies only arrived at Abu Kabir less than 24hrs ago and the last thing Abu Kabir said was it will take at least 48hrs to examine the bodies.

inamarina · 21/02/2025 19:20

LoremIpsumCici · 21/02/2025 18:49

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.

Hamas informed Israel that the Bibas boys and their mother Shiri had been killed in an airstrike in November 2023.

the boys’ bodies have been dead at least since November 2023, so we know the time of death might not be a lie.

So because there were air strikes happening around that time it’s easier to believe the Bibas children died during one of those rather being murdered by the same people who murdered over a thousand people from the same community as the children only a month previously?

Enough4me · 21/02/2025 19:15

It's an easy mistake to mix up bodies too, sure they couldn't have checked clothes/hair etc.
Almost like it was done to create pain over people they openly hate.

Enough4me · 21/02/2025 19:14

Two pieces of wall falling at just the right places and no doubt missing skulls/ribs etc?
Versus people who hate jews strangling them?
I mean, yes obviously the first option is plausible.

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 21/02/2025 19:09

LoremIpsumCici · 21/02/2025 19:04

So can a falling piece of rubble to the neck.
You’re assuming strangulation btw.

The phrasing of “killed with their bare hands” is not how a forensic pathologist would describe any cause of death. It is too click baity and sensationalist.

I am sorry, but I too would like to hear from a forensics expert before being sure. The first responders to Oct 7th got a few causes of death wrong as well. It’s not a case of lying, but not knowing exactly what you are seeing as a layman.

What, two falling bits of debris hit the two young children in exactly the way as to fracture a tiny bone inside their throat?

Really?

EdithStourton · 21/02/2025 19:08

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 21/02/2025 19:01

It's so obvious, isn't it?

It's just people don't want to see it.

Yep.
All this 'oh, but we need to look at the history of this conflict...'
While the history would obviously matter when discussing any sort of peace process (with Hamas? good luck with that...) it should be irrelevant when it comes to lives of little children, killed in cold blood for being Jews.

That is why they were killed.
Because they were Jews.

LoremIpsumCici · 21/02/2025 19:04

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 21/02/2025 18:58

No it won't.

Strangling cause the hyoid bone to fracture.

So can a falling piece of rubble to the neck.
You’re assuming strangulation btw.

The phrasing of “killed with their bare hands” is not how a forensic pathologist would describe any cause of death. It is too click baity and sensationalist.

I am sorry, but I too would like to hear from a forensics expert before being sure. The first responders to Oct 7th got a few causes of death wrong as well. It’s not a case of lying, but not knowing exactly what you are seeing as a layman.

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 21/02/2025 19:01

EdithStourton · 21/02/2025 19:00

x-post with @ChardonnaysBeastlyCat

It's so obvious, isn't it?

It's just people don't want to see it.

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