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Two of the bodies were identified as infant Kfir Bibas and his four-year-old brother Ariel, while a third body that was supposed to be their mother, Shiri, was found not to match with any hostage and remained unidentified, the military said.

Kfir was nine months old when the Bibas family, including their father Yarden, was abducted at Kibbutz Nir Oz, one of a string of communities near Gaza that were overrun by Hamas-led attackers from Gaza. Yarden Bibas was returned in an exchange for prisoners this month.

Hamas said in November 2023 that the boys and their mother had been killed in an Israeli airstrike but their deaths were never confirmed by Israeli authorities.

Netanyahu vowed to eliminate Hamas, saying “the four coffins” obliged Israel to ensure “more than ever” that there was no repeat of the October 7 attack.

The Hamas-led attack into Israel killed about 1200 people, according to Israeli tallies, with 251 kidnapped. Israel’s subsequent military campaign has killed about 48,000 people, Palestinian health authorities say, and left densely populated Gaza in ruins.

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