The Bibas family

Tomorrow some more Israeli and American hostages will be released by Hamas. One who is thought to be released is a member of the Bibas family, the husband/father, Yarden, but there has been no news about the wife, Shiri, and their two little kids, then 9-month-old Kfir and then 4-year-old Ariel ... see Kidnapping of the Bibas family.

I still remember seeing a video made by the kidnappers of the abduction of Shiri and her children, the look of terror on her face as the monsters closed in around her ...

I think the IDF believes she and her children are probably dead, but hope still lives. What has become of them? Why has Hamas not released them with the other civilian women?

Hamas to release Israeli father amid ‘grave concerns’ for wife and children

[...] The release of Bibas, whose wife, Shiri, and children, Ariel and Kfir, remain unaccounted for amid “grave concerns” over their wellbeing, represents a painful moment for the large numbers of Israelis and other supporters around the world who have long campaigned for the Bibas family’s release.

Video of Shiri Bibas holding on to her children as she was kidnapped by Hamas gunmen from the Nir Oz kibbutz became an enduring image of the 7 October 2023 attacks, with her son Kfir just 9 months old when he was abducted ...