“The brutal murder of the Bibas family by Hamas will forever be a scar on the soul of the Jewish people. This should be a scar on the soul of the whole world,” said Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the global body.
Dozens of United Nations ambassadors attended a ceremony at U.N. headquarters in New York City on Monday that memorialized Oded Lifshitz and Shiri Bibas—and her sons Ariel and Kfir—all four of whom were murdered by Hamas and whose bodies Israel redeemed last week from the Gaza Strip.
At first, Hamas returned a body that it claimed was Shiri Bibas, but Israeli authorities said that an autopsy revealed that it belonged to an unnamed person. Hamas subsequently returned her body, which Israel confirmed. Israeli autopsies also revealed that the four civilians were killed brutally in captivity.
“The brutal murder of the Bibas family by Hamas will forever be a scar on the soul of the Jewish people. This should be a scar on the soul of the whole world,” Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, said at the ceremony. “Silence is tantamount to support for terrorism and the pure evil of Hamas.”
