One of the four bodies returned by Hamas to Israel on Thursday is not that of the hostage Shiri Bibas, Israel’s military has said, calling it a ‘violation of utmost severity’ of an already precarious ceasefire deal. The Israeli military confirmed in the early hours of Friday that two of the bodies belonged to Bibas’s children, Ariel and Kfir. However, it added: ‘During the identification process, it was determined that the additional body received is not that of Shiri Bibas, and no match was found for any other hostage.’ A Hamas official told Agence France-Presse on Friday that it was likely that Bibas’s body had been ‘mistakenly mixed’ with others who were killed and buried under the rubble in Gaza. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, added that the group was ‘investigating’ the issue
