Hamas did not release the smallest hostage: a 10-month-old baby and his family were handed over to another group in Gaza

Hamas refused to release the youngest hostage, 10-month-old Kfir Bibas. Instead, they handed him over to another terrorist organization operating in the southern Gaza city, reports New York Post.

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A 10-month-old Israeli boy - the youngest hostage taken by Hamas - and his family were handed over to another Palestinian terrorist group. Their relatives call the move "just more psychological torture" and fear the children are being kept as "trophies."

Israeli army spokesman Avichai Adrai said on the evening of November 27 that the Bibas family, including baby Kfir, his 4-year-old brother Ariel and their parents Yarden and Shiri Bibas, were being held captive in southern Gaza by another Palestinian faction.

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The boys were not scheduled to be released on November 28 as part of the exchange.

But Ofri Bibas, Yarden's sister and aunt of Kfira and Ariel, again asked for the family's release in the next exchange.

“We are talking to you today because tomorrow is the last day of the current ceasefire,” she said. “They are currently the smallest hostages still in Hamas captivity.”

“We don't know where they were kept. As far as we know, they are being kept underground,” Ofri said. “We are very concerned about a 10-month-old baby whose main diet is formula.”

“We call on the Israeli government, Qatar and Egypt, everyone involved in these negotiations and this deal, to do everything possible to include our family in this deal and to release them as soon as possible,” she added. “I hope they don’t keep them as a trophy.”

Eilon Keshet, a cousin of Kfir's father, asked reporters on November 28: "Is little Kfir an enemy of Hamas?"

“There is no precedent for this: a child was kidnapped when he was 9 months old,” Keshet said.

Adrai made the public statement about the boys as part of what appears to be a campaign to increase pressure on terrorist leaders to release them before the end of an extended temporary truce on November 29.

“Infants up to one year old are being held in a Hamas prison who have not seen the light of day for more than 50 days,” Adraei wrote in a message on X.

“Hamas treats them like prey and sometimes hands them over to other terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip. For example, the Bibas family, two red-haired children who were kidnapped from their home in Nir Oz by a member of the terrorist organization Hamas and are being held in the Khan Yunis area by one of the Palestinian factions,” he wrote.

Khan Yunis, where Bibas is being held, is expected to become the target of Israeli attacks once the temporary ceasefire expires. This sparked speculation that Hamas had strategically transferred the baby to the city as a means of extending the truce.

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Four members of the Bibas family were among 240 hostages taken by Hamas during the group's deadly attack on Israel on October 7.

On the video, posted on social media, shows kindergarten teacher Shiri Silberman-Bibas clutching her sons as the family is abducted.

The family was hiding in a safe room when the terrorists attacked.

The children's aunt, Noah Abrahams, described the latest events as "just more psychological torture."

“We are experiencing moments of great uncertainty. Knowing that we will not receive the hugs we wanted leaves us speechless,” the family said in a statement.

On November 27, Israel and Hamas agreed to extend the temporary truce for another two days.

Hamas noted that the extension would follow the rules previously laid out in the original four-day agreement, meaning the terrorists would release at least 20 more hostages in exchange for an additional two days of peace.

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In the first four days of the truce, Hamas released 69 hostages, mostly women and children. Israel has released 150 Palestinians from prison - mostly women and minors - many of whom were detained but never charged.

As ForumDaily wrote earlier:

• October 7 Hamas attacked Israel: Netanyahu declared that “this is war.”
• 8 October The Israeli government officially declared war and greenlighted "significant military steps" in response to the surprise attack by Hamas militants.
• October 11, first plane with American weapons arrived in southern Israel, and the US government invited American citizens wishing to leave Israel evacuation flights. On October 14 it became known: Egypt, Israel and the United States agreed that foreigners living in the Gaza Strip, will be able to travel through the Rafah border crossing into Egypt.
• October 16 President US Joe Biden said Israeli occupation Gaza Strip would be a big mistake.
• October 18 Hossein Amir-Abdallahian, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran, posted a tweet where he wrote that Israel’s time is “running out”. This happened after a rocket attack on a hospital in Gaza took place on October 17.
• 18 October US President Joe Biden visited Israelto express strong support for a country that has declared war on the Palestinian group Hamas due to its brutal terror.
• 19 October US President Joe Biden addressed the Americans from the Oval Office with a speech about the wars between Israel and Hamas, as well as Russia and Ukraine.
• October 24 Hamas released two hostages: about what one of them said.
• On October 24, at a meeting of the UN Security Council in New York, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the situation in the Middle East is becoming more dire by the hour and called on all parties to respect and protect civilians. Israel reacted angrily to comments by the UN Secretary General.
• Israeli troops and tanks conducted a raid in the Gaza Strip on the night of October 26. The military said it carried out several strikes on terrorist targets to “prepare the battlefield” ahead of a major ground operation.
• 27 October two Egyptian cities on the Red Sea were bombed – six people were injured. The aggressor has again demonstrated the danger of the conflict between Israel and Gaza spreading throughout the region. In the same day representatives of Iran and Hamas met in Moscow to talk about Israel.
• On November 1, hundreds of foreign passport holders and wounded people trapped in the Gaza Strip began to leave the war-torn territory. For them, for the first time since the Hamas attacks on Israel, Rafah, the border crossing with Egypt, opened.
• 13 November Israel Defense Forces (IDF) showed weapons and explosives in one of the rooms located under the Al-Rantisi Children's Hospital. The Israeli military said parts of the basement were a Hamas "command and control center" and may have been used to hold hostages.
• Fifty women and children who have been held hostage by Hamas in the Gaza Strip since October 7 must be released in exchange for a four-day ceasefire. This agreement was concluded by Israel and Hamas with the mediation of Qatar and the support of the United States.
• November 24 Hamas released 25 hostages from the Gaza Strip.

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