AhlulBayt News Agency: Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, handed over the body of Shiri Bibas, an Israeli captive, to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Friday, according to a senior Hamas official, after the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) claimed that a body returned by Hamas on Thursday was not her.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, explained that the mix-up occurred due to the chaos caused by Israeli airstrikes, which led to the misidentification of remains.
“It was an unintentional mistake as the body of Shiri was mixed with others due to Israeli attacks on the area where it was located,” he said.
On Thursday, al-Qassam Brigades transferred the remains of four Israeli captives — presumably Shiri Bibas, her two sons, Ariel and Kfir, as well as the body of Oded Lifshitz — back to Israel (1948 occupied Palestine) through the ICRC.
However, later on Thursday, after conducting a forensic analysis on the four bodies, the IOA announced that the body initially believed to be Shiri Bibas did not match her DNA.
The Hamas Movement, for its part, has called for the return of the Palestinian body that Israel claims belongs to a woman killed in its attacks.
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