Israel demands information on freed captive's family

Israel's captives coordinator has demanded that the ceasefire deal mediators provide information about the fate of freed captive Yarden Bibas' wife and children.

“Yarden has returned home. But his wife Shiri and his children Ariel and Kfir have not. We have been searching for them for a long time, tracking their traces and investigating their fate,” Gal Hirsch, Israel’s captives coordinator, said in a statement.

“The Bibas family … has been living in constant fear for their lives for a long time … We continue to demand information about their condition from the mediators,” Hirsch added.

Bibas, his wife and children were captured in the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023. His son Kfir is two years old and is the youngest captive held in Gaza.