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This specific butterfly was chosen to honor Ariel not just for its orange wings, but because Ariel is one of Jerusalem’s 70 names, the academy explained.

IDF and Shin Bet announce that terrorist Mohammed Hassan Mohammed Awad, who infiltrated Nir Oz on October 7 and was likely personally involved in the abductions and brutal murders of Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir Bibas, was eliminated.

A leading Reform rabbi told his congregants during Shabbat services yesterday that the murder of Shiri Bibas and her young children Kfir and Ariel caused him to "snap" and reject the Two-State Solution, the Jewish News Syndicate reported. "Something snapped in me this week," said Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch, the senior rabbi at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York City. "After 16 months of keeping it together, my heart finally cracked. The plight of the Bibas family struck me so deeply, that I do not even know where to place all of these emotions running rampant inside of me."...

In the city where I live, there should not be a street named after terrorism, kidnapping and the murder of innocent Argentine citizens. Let us all ask that @jorgemacri change it and instead honor the Bibas family. It is a tribute that they deserve as Argentines. @ezequielmauro @GabrielAlfie15.

IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari gave a statement on Friday regarding the results of the autopsies of the Bibas brothers. "Baby Kfir and his brother Ariel were brutally murdered no later than November 2023. Contrary to Hamas's lies, they were not killed in an airstrike, but killed in cold blood with the terrorist's bare hands." "Yarden Bibas looked me in the eye yesterday and asked that the whole world know and be shocked at the manner in which his children were murdered. Yarden, an entire nation feels your pain and is waiting for Shiri to return. We are committed to you...

February 21, 2025 . A woman holds a mask depicting the faces of Shiri Bibas and her sons Kfir and Ariel. (AP/Oded Balilty) In a revelation that should shock the conscience of humanity, Israeli authorities have confirmed that Kfir and Ariel Bibas—just 10 months and 4 years old—were choked to death with the bare hands of Hamas terrorists. IDF Spokesperson Daniel Hagari made the grim announcement: “Kfir and Ariel Bibas were brutally murdered by the terrorists. They murdered them with their bare hands. We collected forensic findings and intelligence information.” “Contrary to Hamas’ lies, they were not killed in an...

As regular readers know, Hamass was scheduled to hand over to Israel four murdered hostages and among them are easily the two most heartbreaking: Kfir and Ariel Bibas. Sixteen months ago, these ‘Bibas Babies’ were nine and four years old, respectively, when they were abducted by Hamass during the October 7, 2023 pogram. Their bodies were allegedly handed to Israeli authorities overnight, although there is always a non-zero chance that Hamass is wrong or lying and it will turn out it is not their bodies. But while we don’t think Hamass is particularly trustworthy in general, when they essentially admit...

A US official warned Hamas would face “total annihilation” if all hostages — living and dead — were not returned to Israel as the terror group failed to return the body of slain mother Shiri Bibas on Thursday. Adam Boehler, President Trump’s special envoy for hostages, issued the stark threat hours after the Israel Defense Forces positively identified the bodies of Bibas’ children, Ariel and Kfir, and hostage Oded Lifshitz — but also received an “anonymous, unidentified body.” “It’s horrific. It’s a clear violation and if I have one piece of advice for Hamas now, it’s ‘You need to release...

he said in a video message, adding that his country must "settle the score with the vile murderers — and we will settle the score." Quoting Psalm 94 from the Old Testament, he said, "O God of vengeance, O Lord; O God show vengeance". "We will bring back all our hostages, destroy the murderers, eliminate Hamas, and together — with God’s help — we will secure our future."

As Townhall has been covering, the bodies of four victims taken hostage and then murdered by Hamas were returned to Israel on Thursday morning. In addition to parading their coffins around, which included the youngest hostages, Kfir and Ariel Bibas, who were 9-months-old and 4-years-old when taken hostage, Hamas also added propaganda to their coffins. The young children were taken hostage with their mother, Shiri Bibas on October 7, 2023. While her body was supposed to be sent back with her sons and another hostage, Oded Lifshitz, who was 83-years-old when he was murdered, the IDF has revealed some disturbing...

The Child Murderers of Gaza. The Bibas children are the latest victims of the child killers of Islam. February 21, 2025 by Daniel Greenfield. “O God, do not be silent; hold not Thy peace, and be not still,” the Chief Rabbi of Israel prayed the words of Psalm 83 over the bodies of two murdered children, their mother and an old man. Hamas and PLO terrorists had mockingly paraded their coffins to the cheers and jeers of Muslim men, women and children occupying Gaza while upbeat music played, they had mixed up the bodies, locked the boxes and then attached...

This week, the world was reminded of the deep and abiding evil that has wormed its way to the center of Palestinian nationalistic culture by the news that the Bibas family — a mother, Shiri; a 4-year-old boy, Ariel; and his 9-month-old brother, Kfir — who had been kidnapped back to Gaza on Oct. 7 had in fact been murdered. Their bodies are to be returned to Israel this week; Hamas held the corpses hostage, and in return received the release of imprisoned Palestinian terrorists. It is instructive to recall the circumstances of the Bibas family's kidnapping. They were not,...

An Israeli government spokesman slammed Hamas as a “death cult” after it paraded the coffins containing the remains of four civilian hostages, including those of a baby and a child, during a propaganda stage show in Khan Yunis, the southern Gaza Strip, on Thursday morning. “Hamas is not a resistance movement. Hamas is a death cult that murders, that tortures and parades dead bodies,” government spokesman David Mencer told journalists during a press briefing. The Palestinian terrorist organization “has no place amongst civilized nations. It has no place in Gaza,” he said. One of the bodies has been identified as...

ABC News is making the wrong kind of headlines. The network caught a storm of flack Tuesday over a post on the social media platform X about the latest expected return of hostages taken by the terrorist group Hamas during its Oct. 7, 2023, massacre in Israel. The ABC post labeled some of the hostages “deceased,” a choice of words that ignited the internet. “BREAKING: Hamas will release the bodies of four deceased hostages on Thursday and six living hostages on Saturday, Hamas and Israel confirmed,” the post said. “Four more dead hostages will be released next week, according to...

If Hamas’s statement is true, this week will bring a tragic, though not unexpected, close to a painful episode: the fate of the rest of the Bibas family. Yarden Bibas was released this month by Hamas after nearly 500 days in captivity, and the terror group is claiming it will soon deliver the bodies of his wife, Shiri, and two sons, Ariel and Kfir. Ariel was four when he was taken on Oct. 7, 2023, and Kfir was nine months old.

A Hamas official has announced that the terror group will return the bodies of four Israeli hostages on Thursday, among them the Bibas family. Hamas is also due to release six living hostages on Saturday. The return of the bodies of Shiri, Kfir and Ariel Bibas would mark a tragic end to 16 months of activism, protest and prayer on behalf of the family, who more than anyone else became symbols of the Israeli hostages’ plight. Kfir and Ariel’s father, Shiri’s husband Yarden, was also taken hostage and held separately. He was released earlier this month. An image of Shiri...

Hostages Bibas’ relative Eylon Keshet to Brianna Keilar on CNN (News Central). Oct 7, 2024. He breaks down: Why do I have to fight for this? [It’s] basic human things. I don’t understand the United Nations and all those that have power. Why is it politicized? There is no context. You just don’t kidnap babies. I was in Ireland and I saw someone ripped Bibas’ poster and wrote “free Palestine.” What does that have to do with this?

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari suggested Friday that red-headed Israeli infant Kfir Bibas; his four-year-old brother, Ariel; and their mother, Shiri may still be alive as hostages in Gaza. The Times of Israel reported that the Bibas mother and children were meant to have been released and handed over to Israel — and that Hamas’s failure to do so helped scuttle a seven-day truce, which Hamas violated Friday morning.

"The responsibility for the safety of all the abductees in the Gaza Strip rests fully with the terrorist organization Hamas" Hamas has claimed that the Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir Bibas taken hostage on October 7th from their homes, died in an airstrike.

On August 30, 2022, a three-judge panel in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled the Pennsylvania government violated the Takings clause, the Second Amendment, and the Fourteenth Amendment when they refused to return a gun collection of the parents of a man who was convicted of murder. The parents never committed a crime. The state never used the parents’ gun collection as evidence. From a list of properties, I estimate 47 guns, accessories, computers, and other items valued at $40,000 or more were taken.The State refused to return the parents’ property under the rule of force: we have...