The Tragic Deaths of Ariel and Kfir Bibas

Stop Cheering Palestine, Hamas is Evil

The father of these two precious little kids is an Israeli Jew named Yarden Bibas. Yarden’s wife Shiri and their two children Ariel and Kfir were kidnapped by Hamas in Israel on October 7, 2023.

The Bibas family resided on a kibbutz in Israel. Shiri, a schoolteacher, grew up on that very kibbutz; her parents emigrated to Israeli from Argentina. The kids got their red hair from her side of the family; their father, Yarden, was originally from Yemen. The family joke was their kids, Ariel and Kfir, were “the first Yemenite redheads.”

When Hamas attacked on that awful day in October, Yarden was not at home. Shiri was at home and took her kids to refuge in the family’s safe room (Israel requires all homes to have a secure safe room for just such cases). They tried to keep quiet as Hamas invaded their home, but the boys got a little noisy, and the terrorists heard them. Using a drill, they got into the safe room. The Hamas thugs took video of terrorists kidnapping the mother and children; you can see the panic in her eyes as she clings ferociously to the little children, begging for mercy.

The terrorists laughed and posted the video on social media. Isn’t that funny? A mother is scared home invaders are going to hurt her children. If you wave a Palestinian flag, these are your people… the kind of people who kidnap kids and laugh at their terrified mother.

Yarden was in communication by phone with his family until the Hamas abductors carted them away.

Yarden, too, was taken hostage and there is a photo of him being held by a terrorist holding up a hammer, looking like he was going to hit him in the head with it. He probably did. Shiri and the kids were held separately and a couple of months later, the terrorists told Yarden that his wife and kids were dead (which turned out to be true), adding that it was an Israeli air strike that killed them (which was not true).

As a hostage, Yarden was moved around, often held in private homes, frequently beaten, not given food for days at a time, and taunted with the promise that he would be released to claim the bodies of his family for burial—only to have terrorists laugh in his face and lock him in a cage within a windowless dark tunnel for weeks. The cage was a special punishment for anyone who spoke unkindly to Hamas. (Other hostages reported seeing Yarden at various points in his 484-day ordeal, including some who say he was in the cage.)

At times, Yarden was told his family was alive. Then they were dead. He could never get the real story.

After well over a year in hellish captivity without ever seeing his wife or children, Yarden was released as part of a prisoner exchange, where he was one of three Israeli hostages exchanged for 183 Palestinians. But even after his liberation, he could not get any information about his wife and children.

Little Kfir’s first birthday came and went—there were celebrations in Tel Aviv to remember the redheaded boy and cling to hope that he might still be alive. In August 2024, Holland celebrated “Redhead Days” and about 10,000 people at the festivities came together to demand the redheaded Bibas children be released.

Did the mainstream media cover that? Not a peep. If you live in the United States (especially the United States under Biden) you scarcely heard a bad word about anything relating to Gaza, the Palestinians, or even Hamas. They were saints, just struggling to stay alive while brutal terrible Israel was attacking them for no reason. That was the Biden-Harris doctrine.

The mainstream media made sure we saw plenty of images of Palestinian flags being waved on American campuses. And they gave a lot of ink to the idea that Israel was killing children and committing genocide and about how wonderful the poor the Palestinian people are. Palestinian children were being killed savagely, and all the good people of Palestine want is to live in peace, the media assured us. They made sure we saw Greta Thunberg shrieking her way across Europe in her Palestinian gear about how Israel was committing monstrous crimes against humanity. Greta assured us that Palestine was a peaceful, kind nation full of peaceful, kind people. (Funny, climate change is now on the back burner, since there’s better money in terrorism, I guess.) The media clowns covered endless parades of fat American Democrats chanting “from the river to the sea.” But nobody in the United States heard much about the Bibas family.

Hamas then announced that on February 20, 2025, they would release the corpses of Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir Bibas. They actually made good on this promise. But they released the bodies in a grotesque parade with locked black coffins marched around the streets while people in Gaza danced and cheered and celebrated. This tragic day was a happy holiday for the folks in Gaza. So much merriment! There was joy in Palestine over the murder of those two little boys.

The Bibas Deaths

Now we know a little more. Shiri’s body has yet to be returned. The Hamas ghouls promised to release Shiri’s remains, but sent over the corpse of another woman. As of this date, no one knows what happened to Shiri. Hamas says she’s dead, but they also say they’re a peaceful people and that Palestine is an actual country.

The Bibas children have been positively identified. They were killed about two months after they were taken hostage.

How did Hamas murder these kids? First of all, it’s considered a war crime to kidnap children. You can take adults prisoners in war, but not children. Second, it’s considered a war crime to execute a civilian hostage. But that didn’t matter, Hamas got two sweet little boys and figured the most important thing they could do to advance their political agenda was to kill them.

Could any political ideology be more depraved? Talk about Hitler. The mainstream media says that Trump is Hitler and MAGA people are Nazis. I saw this on Facebook the other day, an alleged friend of mine posted that if you voted for Trump you are “exactly like a Nazi.” However, these same anti-Nazis don’t even mention what Hamas did—which is straight out of the Nazi playbook.

How did these sweet boys die? Did the Hamas terrorists shoot them? Give them a lethal injection? Starve them? Hardly.

Both of the kids were manually strangled to death. I do not say this to be ghoulish or shocking. I say it because we all need to know why Hamas is evil. Saying Hamas is evil is not enough. We have to know why Hamas is evil. Not talking about these murders is the same as giving them a pass. After World War II, we opened up the concentration camps; we document and remember the Holocaust, not because it’s an easy memory, but because we have to know why evil is evil.

Next, Hamas used their deaths by strangulation to advance the notion that Israel was killing civilians. The Bibas boys were made poster children to “prove” that Israel was taking the lives of kids. At least when Hitler killed Jews, he admitted it; he didn’t cook up a story that the Jews were running the concentration camps themselves. This makes Hamas worse than Nazis.

But as the end of Hamas draws increasingly nearer, the Hamas terrorists realized that the bodies of two strangled toddlers might not be a good look for them … so they had to do something. And they did. They mutilated the bodies of these murdered children to disguise their lies. It didn’t work other than to show that there is nothing they won’t do to harm Israel.

Plus, it tells us that Hamas knew that strangling preschoolers was bad. They knew what they were doing was wicked, and they did it anyway. Then they tried to make Israel look bad with these deaths (“Israel did this! They’re committing genocide!”). Now, over a year later, they’re smart enough to realize they better not show what they did because some people might think wantonly taking the life of two cute little boys is not exactly a great deed of heroism.

These were kids. Growing up on a kibbutz with their parents. Doing kid stuff. They had a whole life ahead of them.

Instead, they were abducted, terrorized, and manually strangled by Hamas. Their story must be told.

It was over a year before the Hamas monsters released the bodies of these babies to Israel and to their father, Yarden Bibas, but they did so in a parade with everything but a brass band. Gaza rejoiced! Gaza cheered! People in Gaza are delighted to celebrate these murders. You can see some images of this online if you hurry—I’m pretty sure lefty gatekeepers will take these images down soon. Their delight and jubilation over these murders twisted the knife in Yarden’s heart.

And if you know good from evil, they twisted the knife in your heart, too, with their hideous parade in support of child strangulation.

If you support Hamas in any way shape or form, this is what you are supporting.

I stand with Israel (in case you couldn’t tell).

The phrase “am Yisrael chai” is hard to translate. It’s a slogan of Jewish solidarity, but it means roughly “The people of Israel live.” It comes from Genesis 45:3 when Joseph, who had been living in Egypt, asks about his father Jacob, who was also called Israel. Joseph asks, “Am Yisrael chai?” meaning, “Does Israel live?” In the case of the Bible, it means whether or not the man Israel was still alive. It’s taken today not as a question but as a statement, pointing to the strength and resilience of Israel. There’s even a song, like a national anthem, by this name.