He also said Israel is concerned about the two youngest hostages — Kfir and Ariel Bibas — and their mother, Shiri. Kfir Bibas marked his second birthday in captivity this month. Among the ...

The young female IDF soldiers will be freed after 477 harrowing days in captivity - but there is still no sign of the two and five year old Bibas brothers. Karina Ariev, 20, Daniela Gilboa ...

TEL AVIV — On lampposts, in shop windows and on smartphone screens across Israel, the posters show a smiling, red-headed baby boy clutching a pink elephant. And now the country is bracing to ...

TEL AVIV — On lampposts, in shop windows and on smartphone screens across Israel, the posters show a smiling, red-headed baby boy clutching a pink elephant. And now the country is bracing to ...

It was the moment they were kidnapped. By the time it was released, Shiri Bibas and her sons were already in Gaza. It's been estimated more than 250 hostages were taken as part of Hamas's October ...

Ariel Bibas, five, and his brother Kfir, two, and their parents are on the list of hostages to be released in the first six-week phase of the ceasefire. Kfir's dad Yarden Bibas (left) gave himself ...

There was no word as to when the two youngest hostages, 2-year-old Kfir Bibas and his 4-year-old brother Ariel, might be released. Kfir Bibas has spent both of his birthdays in Hamas captivity.

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Three Israeli hostages and five Thai nationals held by Hamas in Gaza since the 7 October 2023 have been released. Agam Berger, a 20-year-old Israeli soldier, was reunited with her family at a ...

Yarden Bibas, his wife, Shiri, and their two young children, Ariel and Kfir, were kidnapped from the Nir Oz kibbutz when it was attacked by Hamas militants on October 7. Footage of Shiri being led ...

No American is on the initial hostage release list provided by Hamas, nor is two-year-old Kfir Bibas − the red-headed baby taken in the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks who has garnered global attention.