STORY: :: ‘Sorry I could not give protection to you’ says Yarden Bibas as he bids farewell to his spouse and sons killed in Gaza captivity:: February 26, 2025:: Tzohar, Israel:: Shiri, I really like you and can all the time love you. Shiri, you’re the entirety to me. You’re the easiest spouse and mom there may well be. Shiri, you’re my easiest buddy. Mishmish, that is your nickname. Who will lend a hand me make selections now? How am I meant to make selections with out you? Do you take into accout our closing choice in combination, within the secure room? I requested if we will have to struggle or give up. You stated struggle, so I fought.”:: “Shiri, I am sorry I could not give protection to you all. If best I had recognized what would occur, I should not have fired. I take into consideration the entirety we went via in combination—there are such a lot of gorgeous reminiscences. I take into accout Ariel and Kfir’s births. I take into accout the times we’d take a seat at house or in a restaurant, simply the 2 folks, speaking for hours about the entirety. It used to be glorious. I omit the ones instances deeply.”After a funeral procession via southern Israel, the place hundreds of Israelis covered the roads with Israeli flags and orange balloons – a logo of child Kfir and infant Ariel’s ginger hair – the only coffin retaining the 3 our bodies arrived on the cemetery.Status at their recent grave, Bibas addressed his younger circle of relatives, pronouncing he beloved them and used to be sorry for no longer being in a position to offer protection to them.Israelis mourned the circle of relatives, noticed as a logo of the trauma suffered through Hamas October 7, 2023 assault.The youngest hostages, seized through Palestinian gunmen who stormed their house in Kibbutz Nir Oz., have been killed in captivity weeks once they have been kidnapped into Gaza.
