The abduction of Shiri Bibas and her two young sons in October 2023 has left their family and the Israeli community in anguish. Despite a truce agreement between Israel and Hamas in late November 2023, the trio was not released from Gaza as promised.
Hamas later claimed that the family had been killed in an Israeli airstrike, but no concrete evidence was provided to confirm this. The Israeli government, while investigating the claim, never officially confirmed the deaths.