The family of four was among over 180 residents of Kibbutz Nir Oz, an agricultural community in the south of Israel, who were killed or kidnapped in the attack on October 7th. Since then, the family has become the faces of a national trauma that has aroused a ferocious Israeli war in Gaza aimed at Hamas’ eradication, an assault that killed over 47,000 Palestinians, according to the health officials of Gaza, who do not distinguish between fighters and civilians.
More than 1,750 people in Israel were killed at war, about 1,200 of them on the day of the attack on October 7, according to Israeli officials. The toll includes more than 890 members of Israeli military forces.
During more than a year of waiting, the families of hostages and their supporters transported orange balloons and orange shirts consumed in honor of the disappeared children and their ginger -colored hair. They organized major events to mark Kfir’s first two birthdays, which has never famous for captivity.
All the other children seized in the attack on 7 October were released in a previous ceased agreement.
Israeli officials have pressed Hamas negotiators in the last few days for greater clarity on Mrs. Bibas and her children, according to Israeli media. As a female civil with children, it was expected to be released in the initial stages of the agreement of ceased fire, in front of the soldiers or men, if they were alive.
Mr. Bibas was kidnapped separately by his family.
The early hours of the morning before his capture, he sent a message to his sister, of Bibas-Levy, to tell her about the missile fire on the way, according to an interview that he gave to Kan, the Israeli public broadcaster. Later, he sent her a message that the militants had entered the field. He had a gun, he said, but the militants had automatic rifles.
He then described scenes of clashes on Kibbutz and his fear that his two young children would not be able to keep silent.
“It seems the end,” he wrote them at 9:10 in the morning.
The video of the attack on 7 October in Nir Oz revealed images of militants who perforated the door of the Bibas family.
Some time before her brother was captured, Mrs. Bibas-Levy told Kan that she sent a message to her and their parents who loved them. At 9:45 in the morning, he wrote: “I’m inside”.
Mrs. Bibas-Levy told Kan that the first learned about the kidnapping of October 7 of her brother when she saw a video of militants who kidnapped him a few days later.