Here’s an extremely touching and difficult interview with a recently released hostage. This man looks haunted, like a man come back from the dead. The first group of hostages never looked or sounded like this. He also discovered, after his … Continue reading →
The Bibas family – mother Shiri, baby Kfir, toddler Ariel, and father Yarden – have become symbols of all the Israelis who have suffered at the hands of Gazans since October 7th or in all the violence that preceded it. … Continue reading →
… was the usual sickening theater from Hamas. But it also engendered the usual joy at seeing the hostages return to Israel and their families. This time the cynical and abusive “ceremonies” around the hostage release seemed to feature even … Continue reading →
How symbolic: German police arrested a suspect after a stabbing at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial left a person seriously injured on Friday evening local time. Police haven’t yet given a motive or made any connection between the stabbing and the Holocaust … Continue reading →
Now Hamas is saying they’ll give back the body of Shiri Bibas. It will, I’m sure, be examined and the DNA checked to see if it finally means that this kidnapped mother’s body has come home to Israel. Awful, terrible, … Continue reading →
… that Ariel and Kfir were brutally murdered. And that the body of the woman that Hamas so kindly returned is not their mother Shiri Bibas, but is instead some unknown person. The military informs the Bibas family that the … Continue reading →
Today Hamas returned the bodies of the Shiri Bibas and her baby and toddler, and of elderly Oded Lifshitz. We really didn’t need more evidence of the ghoulish nature of this entire society, but we got it nevertheless. When we … Continue reading →
[UPDATE 8:18 PM]: Israel has announced that the Bibas family’s bodies are due to be returned Thursday: Israel has confirmed that Hamas’ youngest hostages, Kfira and Ariel Bibas, and their mother have been killed in Gaza — and their bodies … Continue reading →
The terrible plight of returned hostage Eli Sharabi – the man who was released from Hamas captivity last Saturday in a state of extreme emaciation and weakness, only to discover that his wife and two teenage daughters had been murdered … Continue reading →
Now it isn’t pretty young women who are being released, but middle-aged civilian men. The hostages returned today are described here: The day began in Deir al-Balah in Gaza, where Hamas handed the hostages– Ohad Ben Ami, Or Levy and … Continue reading →
By now I assume just about everyone reading this knows who Yarden Bibas is: his wife and two very young children were kidnapped on October 7, 2023 by Hamas, and he was kidnapped as well. We don’t know the exact … Continue reading →
Three men have been announced as tomorrow’s hostage releases. One is dual American/Israeli citizen Keith Seigel, 65 years old. His wife had also been taken hostage but was released in the first round of exchanges in the fall of 2023. … Continue reading →