Today, Hamas made the handover of Oded Lifshitz and Kfir, Ariel, and Shiri Bibas into a hideous spectacle where it tried to turn even the most depraved terrorist actions into propaganda.
Here was the stage Hamas set up:
The main backdrop shows a vampire-like Netanyahu with the words "The war criminal Netanyahu and his Nazi Zionist army killed them with missiles from Zionist warplanes." Kfir, Ariel, Shiri and Oded are shown.
Beneath it a poster said, "We never forgive nor forget. Al Aqsa Flood was our promise."
There are four coffins on stage next to models of American missiles.
On the left was a poster of "Zionist Nazism in numbers" with the typical bogus Hamas statistics.
On the right is a poster showing a Palestinian as a tree with deep roots facing Israeli tanks and a series of coffins with the Israeli flag on them, with the caption "The return of war = the return of your prisoners in coffins."
In a further cruel joke,
Hamas' news media stated "The resistance was keen to respect the sanctity of the dead and their families, and placed their bodies in four coffins before handing them over to the Red Cross."
Respect for the dead? What should have been the respectful handing over of the bodies of innocents was a circus of Hamas evil, attended by released Hamas terrorists to cheer the proceedings.
Hamas claimed on October 7 that it doesn't attack babies. Yet it brought the Bibas family into Gaza.
Days later, Hamas reiterated, "The resistance does not target children, and the Western media must be accurate and not biased towards the Zionist narrative." Yet it kept the babies.
Hamas claimed that Israel killed the hostages in November 2023 in airstrikes. Yet even if true, they chose to keep them as bargaining chips to force Israel to release more murderers - some of whom also murdered children.
After Hamas claimed that the Bibas family was killed in an airstrike, they took video the father Yarden being told that his family was killed by Israel. It is unfathomable cruelty.
Hamas claims to have respect for the dead. This stage, by itself, shows that this is a cognitive war and there is nothing that is beneath Hamas.
Everything they do, everything they say, is meant to cause pain to Jews. Sometimes the pain is in terror attacks, sometimes it is in disgusting propaganda to blame the victims for their own deaths. But all of it has the same goal.
The handovers of hostages and their bodies is just as much terrorism as the airplane hijackings, suicide bombings, rocket attacks and other attempts by Hamas to harm Jews.
Hamas and its supporters must be utterly defeated, uprooted and destroyed.
UPDATE: Hamas even turned the coffins of the Bibas babies into propaganda.