Israel. Four hostages, including a Polish citizen, will return to the country on Thursday

Hamas has already informed that he would give the corpses of Shari Bibas and two of her young children, Ariel and Kfira. The woman was 32 years old at the time of abduction, the older of her sons was a four -year -old, the younger was nine months.

On October 7, 2023, Hamas fighters also kidnapped the husband of Sziri, Jarden Bibasa, who was released on February 1. The whole family was abducted from home at the Nir Oz kibbutz at the Gaza Strip. Hamas informed earlier that the Shiri Bibas died with the children at the end of 2023 in the Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip. The Israeli authorities did not confirm these reports.

The family became a symbol of the fate of terrorists abducted. Ariel and Kfir were the only children held in the Gaza Strip as a hostage.

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The Bibas family asked not to make her condolence until the medical medics finally confirm the identity of the returned bodies.

The Lifszic body is to be passed on by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad organization with Hamas, which also participated in the attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.

Lifszic was abducted from his family home in Kibbutz Nir Oz. His wife Jochewed, who was released several days later, was kidnapped with him. The man was wounded during the attack, he was imprisoned for 20 days in the south of the Gaza Zone, his later fate is unknown.

The man was one of the co -founders of the Nir Oz kibbutz founded in 1955. For many years he also worked as a journalist of the leftist newspaper “Al Hamiszmar”. He and his wife worked for peace with Palestinians. He participated as a volunteer in a humanitarian organization, helping to leave sick children from the Gaza Strip for treatment to Israel.

“Goodbye to my grandfather, I love you and I will follow your path,” Daniel Lifszic wrote in social media on the news of bringing the body of his grandfather to the country.

The release of bodies by Hamas is an element of the temporary truce in Israel's war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip from January 19. There is also a gradual exchange of hostages for Palestinians embedded in Israeli prisons.

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On Saturday, the next six kidnapped. Until now, 19 Israelis and 1135 Palestinians have regained freedom. Hamas also dismissed five Thailand citizens who were also kidnapped on October 7, 2023, but were not covered by a truce agreement.

Lifszyc was one of several hostages with double citizenship, Israeli and Polish. In July 2024, the killing of another Polish citizen Aleks Dantyga was informed in captivity, also kidnapped from the NIR OZ historian distinguished for Polish-Jewish dialogue.

Hanna Katzir and her son Elad also had Polish passports. The whole family was abducted from Nir Oz. During the attack, the Hamasists killed the father of Rami Kati's family. Hanna Katzir was released during the first truce in November 2023. Elad was killed in captivity. Israeli soldiers regained his body in April 2024.

A spokesman for the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Paweł Wroński said in June 2024. After Israel confirmed the death of another four hostages that two of them had Polish citizenship.

The spokesman added that men could not realize this, because the procedures confirming citizenship were already taking place when they were imprisoned in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli embassy in Warsaw later confirmed that Amiram Cooper and Chaim Peri had Polish citizenship.

In the attack on October 7, Palestinian terrorists killed about 1,200 people and kidnapped 251. 70 people from this group remain in captivity, according to the Israeli Army 35 is dead. The invasion began the war in the Gaza Zone, in which over 48,000 were killed. Palestinians. The extension prospects of the truce currently in force until the beginning of March are uncertain.