Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday said he would ensure “Hamas pays the full price” for failing to hand over captive Shiri Bibas after the Palestinian group released a body Israel said was not hers.
The remains of four people, whom the group said were captives, were handed over on Thursday, the first such transfer under a fragile ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. Hamas said the remains included those of Bibas and her two young sons, whose father was released by the group earlier this month.
On Friday, however, Israel said the body purported to be of Shiri Bibas was instead that of a Gazan woman.
Hamas said on Friday the remains of Bibas appear to have been mixed with other human remains from the rubble after an Israeli air strike hit the place where she was held.
Hamas has long maintained an Israeli air strike killed the boys and their mother early in the war.
