Hamas’s return of three members of the Bibas family, including Kfir and Ariel Bibas – a baby and a four-year-old – in coffins on Thursday unmasked the unambiguous terror and brutality at the core of the terrorist group’s ideology.
For a short period of time, the overwhelming majority of critics of Israel went silent, and many media outlets who spent most of their airtime slamming Israel even recalled that October 7, 2023, was, in fact, a mass terrorist attack.
For those who tried during the course of this war to portray Hamas as a misunderstood resistance group of freedom fighters who only want to get rid of Israel’s tyrannical occupation, the Bibas children in coffins blew a gaping hole through their narrative.
For these few moments, Hamas’s narrative does not matter.
Its best-case scenario is to try to convince the world that Israel, while trying to attack Hamas forces, killed the Bibas children in an airstrike sometime in November 2023 (its announcement in relation to this was made on November 29, but it did not say when this occurred).
But how good will Hamas look even then?
But how good does Hamas look in such a narrative?
This narrative still suggests that its forces thought it was okay to kidnap a baby and a four-year-old.
Also, this would mean that Hamas’s top commanders did not rebuke their foot soldiers for doing so nor immediately send the children back to Israel, holding on to “only” Israeli soldiers instead.
No, clearly, Hamas’s top officials thought it was a good idea to hold on to the Bibas children.
Further, when the opportunity came, they did not release the Bibas children during the November 23-30 hostage deal when around 100 others were released.
So, the best case scenario for Hamas is to highlight the idea that the IDF accidentally killed the Bibas children around that time.
However, there is no reason to believe the terrorist group, who tried many times to pretend that certain hostages were dead, such as Hannah Katzir, only to admit later that they were alive, and who is willing to call the sky green and grass blue if it thinks this will help its cause.
There are a few examples where we know that IDF’s actions directly or indirectly led to the killing of hostages.
In November 2023, the IDF mistakenly killed hostages in an airstrike that killed northern Gaza Hamas brigade commander Ahmed Randur, not realizing that they were nearby.
Then, in December 2023, soldiers mistakenly shot three hostages, suspecting they were Hamas terrorists trying to trick the military into lowering their guard.
After that, in August 2024, Hamas executed six hostages in Tel Sultan in Rafah when it feared that nearby IDF forces were about to close in on them, which the military eventually did.
The Tel Sultan incident is telling.
It makes it clear that anytime IDF soldiers were nearby, the Hamas terrorists guarding the hostages were under instructions to kill them rather than taking any risk that the hostages might be saved.
Dozens of hostages were taken alive on October 7, 2023. They died while in Hamas captivity.
Being that Hamas has offered no evidence to prove that IDF airstrikes killed the Bibas children and that the IDF has admitted to at least two instances where it did kill hostages, there is every reason to believe that most or all of the hostages who died while in Hamas captivity were summarily executed by Hamas like the hostages were in Tel Sultan.
Questions have also been raised about Hamas seeming to exhume the Bibas family from a Palestinian graveyard in Khan Yunis.
At one point, the IDF even exhumed some bodies from that graveyard, seemingly with intelligence that it might find hostage bodies there, and was heavily criticized globally.
Though the IDF did not find the Bibas family at the time, it seems that its intelligence about Hamas hiding Israeli hostage bodies in Palestinian graveyards – including presumed knowledge that the graveyard concealed a Hamas command center in a tunnel just underneath it – was spot on.
Putting all of this together, what most likely happened was that Hamas gave orders to kidnap anyone, regardless of age, maintained that policy prior to and during Israel’s invasion of northern Gaza, summarily executed hostages, such as the Bibas’ children, as soon as the IDF got “too close,” and then hid their bodies in a Palestinian graveyard, which was also close to its top commanders who could keep an eye on those “valuable” bodies.
There was nothing Hamas could do to hide these facts and images on Thursday, and at least for one day, almost the entire world remembered who was the terrorist and who – the victim.
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