Updated: Feb. 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Bibas family funeral held in Israel (10 images)
By Wade Sheridan
Israelis mourn the Bibas family during their funeral on February 26, 2025. Israelis lined the road as the funeral procession passed through Sderot and Rishon LeZion. Shiri Bibas and her two sons, Kfir and Ariel, were taken hostage by Hamas on October 7, 2023. When Hamas returned the bodies, it said they had been killed during Israeli airstrikes. But according to an Israeli autopsy report, the children had been murdered, their bodies mutilated to make it look like they were wounded from bombing.
Israeli civilians line the road with Israeli flags, balloons and yellow flags as the funeral procession carrying bodies of the Bibas family passes through Sderot, Israel, on February 26, 2025. Photo by Jim Hollander/UPI
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Shiri Bibas and her two sons, Kfir and Ariel, were taken hostage from Kibbutz Kfar Aza by Hamas on October 7, 2023, and were returned dead more than 500 days later. Photo by Jim Hollander/UPI
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When Hamas returned the bodies it said the three had been killed during Israeli airstrikes. But according to an Israeli autopsy report, the children had been murdered, their bodies mutilated to make it look like they were wounded from bombing. Photo by Jim Hollander/UPI
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