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Haviv Rettig Gur

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🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Recorded Thursday, February 20th

Israelis watched horrified on Thursday, as Hamas gunmen conducted a ceremony handing over four coffins, two of them with the bodies of Kfir and Ariel Bibas, aged 1 and 4, when they were murdered in Gaza, along with their mother Shiri. Oded Lifshitz, 83, was the fourth body handed over to Israel. Around the ceremony, Gazan civilians cheered and threw rice, people brought their kids to watch.

What should we make of this gruesome spectacle, of a festival conducted over the coffins of little children?

Some thoughts on what Israelis, and with them, the whole Jewish world, just witnessed.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends.
0:06.6	I'm recording on the evening of Thursday, February 20th.
0:12.2	Israel got back the bodies of Odette Leifschitz, 83.
0:22.5	Shiri Bibas, and her two boys.
0:28.3	A baby and a four-year-old boy,
0:31.9	Kfir and Ariel, who were taken hostage by Hamas,
0:35.9	or by Palestinian civilians, rushing in to plunder.
0:41.6	They were taken as trophies.
0:44.0	They were murdered in Gaza.
0:47.6	I want to share with you some thoughts.
0:51.3	And what the death of the Bimus boys means.
0:56.4	Not just not adults, a baby.
1:01.1	Who takes a baby trophy?
1:06.5	And Hamas, as they were sending the coffins to the, handing them over to the Red Cross,
1:16.1	they held a ceremony.
1:20.9	In which armed gunmen stood proudly alongside the coffins of a baby and a toddler.
1:31.6	And ordinary people celebrated through rice.
1:41.4	At a day of it brought their children to see it.
1:47.0	It was festive.
1:50.0	Hamas was broadcasting that it was festive.
1:54.0	They're proud.
1:56.0	They're proud of having taken a baby and a toddler and of their deaths.
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