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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Melanie Lidman

Thousands line streets to farewell Shiri Bibas and her young sons, killed in Gaza

Mourners holding flags and orange balloons lined highways in Israel on Wednesday as the bodies of Shiri Bibas and her two young sons, who died while held captive in Gaza, were taken for burial.

Signs reading “forgive us” were held aloft as the procession passed.

The Bibas family's fate has become a symbol of the grief felt in Israel following the Hamas attack on October 7 2023.

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