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- Katie Davis, Chief Foreign Reporter (Digital)
- Published: 6:54, 1 Feb 2025
- Updated: 6:55, 1 Feb 2025
TWO hostages person been released by gun-toting Hamas terrorists arsenic fears turn for the young Bibas brothers.
Their dada Yarden Bibas has yet been freed this greeting aft 484 days successful captivity.
He and Ofer Calderon were handed implicit to the Red Cross successful confederate Gaza's Khan Younis.
American-Israeli Keith Samuel Siegel is besides acceptable to beryllium freed contiguous as portion of the fragile ceasefire woody with Israel.
But fears are increasing for Yarden's sons Kfir, aged two, and Ariel, five, and his wife, Shiri.
The boys were kidnapped alongside their parents from Kibbutz Nir Oz during Hamas' October 7 bloodbath.
The children and their mum were past seen live successful a video being marched done Gaza by gunmen.
In November, Hamas claimed Shiri and her sons had been killed successful an Israeli airstrike — a connection Israel’s subject said it could not verify astatine the time.
Their dad, Yarden, was reportedly separated from them and held successful a antithetic location.
Israeli subject spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said earlier this period that the IDF is “very acrophobic and worried” astir the information of the Bibas children and their mother.
Baby Kfir turned 2 successful captivity successful January.
Across Israel, posters of the red-haired toddler clutching his pinkish elephant person go a achy awesome of the hostage crisis.