Relatives of baby kidnapped by Hamas call for his release in extension of truce

Relatives of 10-month-old baby Kfir Bibas, kidnapped by Hamas in Link together with his brother Ariel and his parents Yardén and Shiri, insisted today that they fear for his health and asked for his release as part of the extension of the truce agreed between Israel and the Islamic group that ends tomorrow.

“The reason we are speaking today is because tomorrow is the last day of the ceasefire of the current agreement that Israel has to release the hostages and they have not yet been released.“, he said Ofri Bibassister of Yarden Bibasin a virtual press conference, in which he clarified that the baby’s name is not included among the captives who are expected to return to Israel today.

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Ofri complained that “all other children have already been released” and that his nephew, who was nine months old when he was kidnapped, is the youngest hostage still in the hands of Hamas.

According to the Arab spokesman for the Israeli Army, Avichai Andraeethe family was kidnapped from the kibbutz of Nir Oz by the armed wing of Hamas on October 7, but was later transferred to another Palestinian armed group, which maintains it in an area of Jan Yunis.

Baby carriages with images of the young hostages Bibas Ariel (left) and Idan Avigail (right), are displayed, among others, to symbolize the young hostages taken by Hamas militants during a demonstration calling for their release in Campo de Marte, in front of the Tower Eiffel in Paris. , on October 26, 2023. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP) (DIMITAR DILKOFF/)

“All other children have already been released. We don’t know where they are being held. They keep them underground. There isn’t much baby food and all this makes us very worried about a four year old and a 10-month-old baby who still needs formula milk as the main diet. We don’t know anything about his status.“, he said Ofri.

Likewise, he asked the Government of Israel and the countries mediating the truce -Egypt and Qatar- that their family members be included among the hostages to be released.

“We demand that they be included in tomorrow’s list, if not today’s list”, he stressed.

He Israeli government and the political arm of Hamas They reached a four-day truce on Thursday, which was extended yesterday for another 48 hours, during which the Islamist group freed 51 Israeli hostages and 18 foreigners, in exchange for the release of 150 Palestinian prisoners, all of them women and children.

The prediction is that between today and tomorrow they will leave link others 20 hostages in relation to Israel in exchange for others 60 Palestinian prisoners.

Source: Elcomercio