{"id":1442,"date":"2025-08-06T00:59:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T00:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2025-08-06T00:59:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T00:59:48","slug":"bibas-family-remembers-ariel-on-his-sixth-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=1442","title":{"rendered":"Bibas family remembers Ariel on his sixth birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The family shared a post on Instagram to mark his birthday: \u201cAriel was a mischievous child full of love with a smile that immediately melted everyone he met,\u201d the post read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-843624\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Slain hostage Ariel Bibas;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Slain hostage Ariel Bibas<\/a>, who was kidnapped on October 7, 2023, by Hamas terrorists, would have turned six years old on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The family shared a post on Instagram to mark his birthday: \u201cAriel was a mischievous child full of love with a smile that immediately melted everyone he met,\u201d the post read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe invite you to light a candle or to blow up an orange balloon and dedicate a moment to create a good moment with your loved ones that will bring a smile to their faces &#8211; send a message, give a hug, offer to help someone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe love you and miss you, Luli.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mb-4 text-lg font-bold\">Kidnapped on October 7<\/h3>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ariel was abducted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/the-october-7-massacre\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:October 7, 2023;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">October 7, 2023<\/a>, along with his baby brother Kfir, father Yarden, and mother Shiri from their home in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/murderer-protesters-yell-convoy-netanyahu-151723440.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kibbutz Nir Oz.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">Kibbutz Nir Oz.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>Orange ribbons, orange balloons: Holding colored balloons during a memorial for murdered hostages Shiri Bibas and her children Ariel and Kfir, in Jerusalem, February 2025. (credit: FLASH90)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The IDF confirmed through intelligence and forensic evidence from the identification process that the two children were brutally murdered in captivity by Hamas in November 2023, just a month after their abduction, and were not killed by an IAF strike, as Hamas originally claimed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ariel was murdered at four years old, and Kfir Bibas was murdered at 10 months old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-843123\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Their bodies were returned to Israel;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Their bodies were returned to Israel<\/a> along with hostage Oded Lifshitz, after 503 days in Hamas captivity in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Shiri\u2019s body was returned two days later, after Hamas misidentified her remains, sending another woman\u2019s body in a locked coffin with keys that did not match, according to extensive testing by the L. Greenberg Institute of Forensic Medicine at Abu Kabir.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Yarden Bibas was released alive earlier that month as part of a hostage-prisoner swap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The three slain Bibas family members were laid to rest together at Tzohar cemetery in the South.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, &#8220;The State of Israel bows its head to two small children, Ariel and Kfir Bibas, and to Oded Lipshitz, one of the founders of Kibbutz Nir Oz. All three were murdered with terrible cruelty in Hamas captivity in the first weeks of the war.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The cruelty of the Hamas monsters knows no bounds,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/love-miss-bibas-family-remembers-234921280.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family shared a post on Instagram to mark his birthday: \u201cAriel was a mischievous child full of love with a smile that immediately melted everyone he met,\u201d the post read. Slain hostage Ariel Bibas, who was kidnapped on October 7, 2023, by Hamas terrorists, would have turned six years old on Tuesday. 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