Hostages and Missing Families Forum
JNS has decided not to publish the propaganda video on its website.
Sharabi expressed the urgency of returning the remaining captives in Gaza.
With the return of the four bodies, Israel has now received all 33 hostages to be handed over in the first phase of the ceasefire deal.
He spoke at the funeral of Shiri, Ariel and Kfir, kidnapped and murdered by Arab terrorists from Gaza.
The red-haired toddlers and their mother, who were taken hostage from their home in Nir Oz on Oct. 7, 2023, became a symbol of Hamas’s evil.
“Until we receive definitive confirmation, our ordeal is not over,” the family said, after Hamas announced that the bodies of Shiri Bibas and her two children, Ariel and Kfir, are to be returned to Israel.
Brother of slain hostage Omer Neutra tells JNS, “He’s a hero, and he deserves to be buried in the Land of Israel.”
As some celebrate the abductees’ imminent release, others fear the deal endangers those left behind, and also Israel’s national security.
Opponents in Jerusalem warned that concessions would invite further abductions, while in Tel Aviv demonstrators said a deal with Hamas was the only moral move.
Michael Levy, whose brother Or was kidnapped from the Nova music festival on Oct. 7, 2023, will speak at U.N. headquarters in New York.
House Speaker Mike Johnson met on Capitol Hill with relatives of captives held in Gaza.
The prime minister said that the “time was ripe” to promote a hostages’ deal, Kan News reported.
