0
0
‘You have more extremists in the UK than the Middle East’ – Stark warning issued over radicalisation
ISI/DI: This is a very interesting interview and worth your time listening. It’s less than ten minutes.
European rise in antisemitism a result of Islamic migration, Diaspora minister says
Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli added that involving Qatar in negotiations was a mistake.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-842346
ISI/DI: This too, makes for an interesting read. Opposing views from what might be called the opposition. The question is, which opposition. Should take about three minutes to read.
MORE ON THE HOSTAGES
Israel prepares for return of slain hostages, Hamas makes proposal for hostage release
Bodies of slain hostages Oded Lifshitz, Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir Bibas to be returned • IAF strikes weapons belonging to old Syrian regime in southern Syria
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/2025-02-19/live-updates-842753?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Israel%20names%20next%20six%20hostages%20to%20be%20freed%20%2A%20Study%3A%20NYT%20war%20coverage%20created%20imbalanced%20sympathy%20for%20Palestinian%20side&utm_campaign=February%2019%2C%202025
ISI/DI: There are roughly 35 hostages to be returned alive and approximately another 35 dead bodies to be returned.
If you want the details of what is happening on the hostages, these next few posts should provide what you seek.
Not a bad idea to have a handkerchief close by, though.
Argamani: Deal must go into next phase to ‘bring all hostages back’
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-842762?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Israel%20names%20next%20six%20hostages%20to%20be%20freed%20%2A%20Study%3A%20NYT%20war%20coverage%20created%20imbalanced%20sympathy%20for%20Palestinian%20side&utm_campaign=February%2019%2C%202025
The hostage horror that cannot be acknowledged – comment
Let’s wait one more day before the inevitable headlines blare out with the bad news. We can’t bring ourselves to acknowledge that the unfathomable may have arrived. So we won’t… for as long as we can.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-842736?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Israel%20names%20next%20six%20hostages%20to%20be%20freed%20%2A%20Study%3A%20NYT%20war%20coverage%20created%20imbalanced%20sympathy%20for%20Palestinian%20side&utm_campaign=February%2019%2C%202025
Hamas proposes release of all phase two hostages at once
Israel’s security cabinet has not yet authorized negotiations on the proposal.
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-842737?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Israel%20names%20next%20six%20hostages%20to%20be%20freed%20%2A%20Study%3A%20NYT%20war%20coverage%20created%20imbalanced%20sympathy%20for%20Palestinian%20side&utm_campaign=February%2019%2C%202025
Hamas offers to release all remaining hostages at once, but at what ‘cost’?
Hamas offers to release all remaining hostages at once, but at what ‘cost’?
WATCH: Renowned Australian broadcaster breaks down while speaking about Bibas family
Sky News anchor Chris Kenny choked up multiple times during his monologue, in which he blasted the world media and protesters for propping up Hamas, the terror group responsible for violently murdering the Bibas family.
WATCH: Renowned Australian broadcaster breaks down while speaking about Bibas family
Israel mourns as bodies of slain hostages begin to be identified
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/2025-02-20/live-updates-842922?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=🔴BREAKING%3A%20Israel%20mourns%20return%20of%20the%20bodies%20of%20four%20Israeli%20hostages&utm_campaign=Breaking%3A%20Hostages%20return#google_vignette
ISI/DI: Alas, the worst of the worst. I can’t even imagine the pain experienced by the father, who was only recently released himself.
First, having been held hostage by the same dispicable animals who held the rest of his family, but in a different area. Out of touch with his family for over a year, and now this, going through the identification process.
Slain hostage Oded Lifshitz’s family confirms identification of his returned body
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/2025-02-20/live-updates-842922?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=🔴BREAKING%3A%20Israel%20mourns%20return%20of%20the%20bodies%20of%20four%20Israeli%20hostages&utm_campaign=Breaking%3A%20Hostages%20return#google_vignette
ISI/DI: This post is on the same webpage as the one above, so you will need to scroll down until you see the headline.
Bodies of Shiri Bibas, and her children
ISI/DI: The Hamas terror organization handed over the remains of four slain Israeli civilians held hostage since October 7th, 2023, to the International Red Cross Thursday morning, as part of the ongoing hostage deal and Gaza ceasefire.
The captives included the children (two sons) of 33-year-old Shiri Bibas, the youngest Israelis taken hostage by Gazan terrorists on October 7th – Ariel and Kfir.
The two boys would have been five and two years old respectively.
What is so baffling is one of the bodies, that thought to be of Shiri Babis ……… wasn’t!! No, the body was not that of Shiri’s.
One of four bodies returned from Gaza to Israel on Thursday is not hostage Shiri Bibas, as claimed by Hamas, the Israeli military said. In fact, it was not the body of any known hostage!!
The news that Shiri Bibas, 33, and her two sons, Ariel and Kfir, who would now be aged five and two, were dead, triggered an outpouring of grief in Israel.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) informed the Bibas family that the bodies of her sons have been identified after their remains were given to Israel by Hamas on Thursday.
But the third body was not that of their mother, the IDF says.
Hamas has not yet commented on Israel’s claim.
“During the identification process, it was determined that the additional body received is not that of Shiri Bibas, and no match was found for any other hostage. This is an anonymous, unidentified body,” the IDF posted on X.
“This is a violation of utmost severity by the Hamas terrorist organization, which is obligated under the agreement to return four deceased hostages. We demand that Hamas return Shiri home along with all our hostages.”
The IDF said that the two children “were brutally murdered by terrorists in captivity in November 2023“, according to intelligence and forensic findings. Hamas had said the boys and their mother were killed in an Israeli bombing.
Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas were aged 32, four and nine months when they were kidnapped during the Hamas attacks on Israel on 7 October 2023.
The children’s father Yarden Bibas, 34, was released by Hamas on 1 February, 2025.
See COPYRIGHT information below.
