On Wednesday, hundreds of condolences gathered in a cemetery in Southern Israel to give a final farewell to Shiri Bibas and his two sons, who were killed in Gaza captivity and became a symbol of the hostages in Israel.
Orange balloon symbolizes children’s red hair, not far from Kibutz Neer Oz’s cemetery, from where the Bibas family was seized by Palestinian militants on 7 October 2023.
Signs of reading “Sorry” and “The Broken Heart with the Bibas family” were hung from a nearby fence.
“Shiri, I am sorry that I could not protect all of you,” Yordan Bibas said in his funeral at the funeral of his wife and two sons – Ariel and Kefir – Ariel and Kefir – who were four and nine months old at that time. His kidnapping.
Hamas handed over the remains of Shiri and two children as part of the ceasefire with Israel last week, while Yardan Bibas was freed earlier this month.
Yordon said, “I love you and always love you.
The funeral was banned for a close family and not open to the media.
“Aerial, I hope you are not angry with me to fail to save me properly and not to be there for you,” he said.
“I hope you know that I thought about you every day, every minute. I hope you are enjoying heaven.”
Recalling Kefir, he said: “You brought more light and happiness to our small house. You came with your beloved, breathtaking laughter and smile, and I was immediately bent! It was impossible that you all the time you But do not mourn. “
Shiri and his two sons were buried together in the same coffin, when they were seen holding their two children tightly, in a jolt for their possession images, the militants took them to Gaza.
In the small cemetery, the tomb was piled up high with orange, yellow and white flowers, an AFP correspondent reported from the cemetery.
Left-hanging newspaper Hretz published his front page completely in Orange.
“Tears in an entire country have a farewell to Shiri, Ariel and Kefir. They can rest peacefully,” it reads.
‘Take responsibility’
During the funeral, Shiri Bibas’s sister -in -law, OFRI asked all Israeli officials to take responsibility for the death, saying that their loved ones could be saved.
He said, “Forgiveness has no meaning before examining failures, and all officers take responsibility … they could save you but take revenge,” he said.
Next to the funeral, a large crowd, several orange wearing and carrying Israeli flags, gathered at the Tel Aviv Plaza, who held the hostage hostage to see the live broadcast of the funeral.
“Obviously all our hearts are broken,” Sherri Etadgui said, who moved to Israel from Canada two months ago.
“There is really no word that can express how we feel for this family, and so we wanted to live here today who are feeling equal and show our support.”
Earlier in the day, thousands of mourning and orange balloons carrying flags, Kibutz joined the funeral procession in Zohar near Neer Oz.
The national anthem of Israel was sung in Hush Tone as the funeral was passed through a crowd in the Capooths Rishon Legian, where the remains of the three hostages were prepared for burial.
“The Bibas family, I think, is like a symbol of everything that happened to us since 7 October,” 72 -year -old retired teacher Ayala Slester Slester Avidov said, as he spoke to AFP. “Two children and mother who did nothing for the world and was murdered in cold blood.”
Dozens of people lit candles on the roadside.
‘Dil mein’
22 -year -old Aviv Naamman said, “We all got the heart of the Bibas family.” “I have a sister and the nephew is at the same age, so I felt the responsibility of coming here today.”
The remains of the three Bibas family members had returned under the first trusa deal, which brought Gaza at the end of the fight of over 15 months.
Handover instigated anger in Israel when Hamas initially gave a dead body which did not come out. The terrorist group convicted a “mix-up” and handed over the right remains the next day.
Hamas has long stressed that an Israeli air strike killed Shiri, KFIR and Ariel Bibas at the beginning of the war, but an Israeli postmortem found no evidence of the explosion injuries.
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