Return of bodies marks day of anguish for Israel happymamay

On a dark winter day in late winter, under the sky of bullets and driving rain at times, this was the moment when all Israelis were giving up.

The return of the dead.

It has begun, as all deliveries began so far, with a political charge by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups involved in Israeli hostages for more than 500 days.

Once again, there was a stage, surrounded by huge posters that highlight the catastrophic consequences of the military campaign of Israel in Gaza and the Palestinian design to survive.

But instead of the inhabited survivors, sometimes, there were four black coffins, each with a picture and name – Lifschitz, Sherry Pepas and her young buildings, Ariel and Kafir – accompanied by the image of Israeli ministers, Benjamin Netanyahu.

The missile covers carry the slogan: “They were killed by American bombs.” Hamas has long argued that the four were killed by the Israeli air strikes on Gaza, which was not verified.

As previously, Red Cross officials were on hand to supervise the operation. In a rare general statement on this issue, they urged Hamas to conduct a special and generous delivery.

It is clear that their efforts were in vain, but they tried to examine the coffins from the general scrutiny, and each of them wrapped in a white paper before leading them away.

The mobilization was smaller than usual, perhaps because of the heavy rains.

After delivering on Thursday morning, at a military party at the edge of the Gaza Strip, the coffins carrying the hostages were raised with Israeli flags and the prayers offered by the army rabbi.

Then a caravan of vehicles north to the Forensic Institute in Abu Kabir, in Jaffa, where the official identification of the bodies occurs.

Along the way, small groups of Israelis stood silently in the rain, carrying Israeli flags and yellow banners – the color associated with the hostages and their supporters.

In Karmei Gat, where the displaced members of Kibbutz Nir Oz lived, waiting to return home, the protest was particularly.

All four hostages that were released on Thursday were seized from Nir Oz on October 7, 2023.

The field of Tel Aviv’s hostage was a study of sadness, where people cried or sit on the ground, walking in their hands.

The faces of the Bibas Red Red Red – ARIEL and KFIR – are dressed on the walls, road marks, windows up and down in the country. For fear of the worst, the Israelis clung to the hope that the brothers have survived, alongside their mother, Sherry.

“We have destroyed the news,” said Orly Maroun, outside Abu Kabir.

“I have red -headed grandchildren and see the pictures are very tragic.”

Meanwhile, Yazhor, the son of Audid Levisz, told the Israeli radio that he was always afraid of his father’s health, since his violent kidnapping in October 2023.

Oded was 84 years old at the time. He and his wife, Yoshivis, were transferred to Khan Yunis in Gaza, where they were separated, and they did not see each other again.

YoCheved was released by Hamas two weeks after the attack.

“We need to close this wound and move forward,” he said, adding that his father, a famous journalist and activist of peace, had a long time ago about how to resolve the Middle East conflicts.

“It is sad that we went through this entire session and did not solve it,” said Yazher. “We left it as something collapsing, and we look at what we are now.”

Meanwhile, some Palestinians in Gaza expressed, some Palestinians expressed their anger that their Israeli bodies were delivered, while an unknown number of Palestinians who were killed in Israel’s military campaign is still buried in the horrific debris of Gaza.

In addition, up to 665 bodies retained by Israel in the tombs of Markam, according to a Palestinian protest group, the national campaign to restore the bodies of the martyrs. It says that some have been held for decades.

“I don’t like this agreement at all,” said Ikram Abu Salut in Khan Yunis. “They did not remove the rubble and we do not even know the location of our children and our families.”

While she was talking, the bulldozers that fly Egyptian flags were finally arrived in northern Gaza. Israel allowed the equipment to enter, in exchange for a delivery of Thursday and the issuance of six other neighborhoods next Saturday.