As if Hamas could stoop any lower than presenting released hostages with ‘gift bags,’ the terrorists today paraded four coffins assumed to contain dead captives in front of a crowd of supporters while handing them over to the Red Cross—though not before posing with a large poster portraying Benjamin Netanyahu as a blood-soaked vampire.
This classic antisemitic trope was displayed to accuse the Israeli PM—and, as one poster put it, his “Nazi [!] army”—of killing the hostages.
The coffins were supposed to contain members of the Bibas family, whose conditions have long been speculated over as part of Hamas’ mind games. Among them were Ariel and Kfir, aged just 10 and nine months respectively on October 7th, with Kfir being the youngest hostage abducted by Hamas. Their mother was also said to be among the dead, as well as an 84-year-old man.
Hamas, however, reportedly locked the coffins and refused to provide any keys, so as to keep up the games just that little bit longer. A formal identification process will take place later. For now, the coffins have been draped in Israeli flags.
United Nations Human Rights chief Volker Turk said the parading “is abhorrent and cruel and flies in the face of international law.” Indeed, a more shocking terrorist propaganda show can hardly be imagined. But little—if any—action can be expected from the UN in response.
Aid workers had to erect white screens to hide the transfer from celebrating crowds while music blared in the background.
A very different kind of crowd later gathered in Israel while the Red Cross convoy transported the bodies to the Abu Kabir forensic institute.
