The International Committee of the Red Cross participated Thursday in the gruesome handover ceremony of four bodies of Israeli hostages who were abducted by Hamas on October 7, 2023, and died in captivity in Gaza.
The handover was part of a hostage and ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. The bodies of four Israelis — Oded Lifshitz, 84; and mother Shiri Bibas, 33, with her two children Ariel, 5, and Kfir, 2 — were handed over as part of the first phase of the deal, involving the release of 33 hostages, living and dead. Hundreds of convicted Palestinian terrorists are being released in return.
The ghoulish details of the ceremony shocked Israelis, many of whom likened Hamas — and the cheering Palestinian spectators — to Nazis
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