Kfir and Ariel Bibas were kidnapped with their parents during Hamas' October 2023 attack on southern Israel. Hamas first announced this week that the bodies of the boys and their mother, Shiri, would return to Israel on Feb.

Hamas handed to the Red Cross the remains of four Israelis it had taken hostage in Oct. 2023 — a young mother, her two small children and a man in his 80s — as the shaky Gaza truce stumbled ahead.