Hamas says 10-month-old baby and family taken hostage killed in Israeli bombing
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00:00 Joanna, let's talk now about news we're getting on one specific hostage case this afternoon.
00:05 This is a 10-month-old Israeli baby.
00:09 Now Hamas is claiming this afternoon that that baby, alongside their brother and mother,
00:14 were killed in an Israeli bombardment.
00:17 We of course can't confirm that at this stage, but what can you tell us from Jerusalem right
00:22 now?
00:23 Well, Hamas put out a statement a short while ago claiming that the Bebas family, this consists
00:30 of that 10-month-old baby boy, Kfir, his four-year-old brother, Ariel, and his mother, Shira, that
00:40 the three of them had been killed in what Hamas called one of the Zionist bombing campaigns.
00:48 Now the IDF, the Israeli army, says it is looking at those claims.
00:55 It saw the notice.
00:58 It had been the presumption until this notice came out that the Bebas family was alive.
01:04 The Israeli army itself, the Arabic spokesman for the army, put out a statement just a couple
01:10 days ago saying the Bebas family, we believe they're being held by another terror group
01:17 in Khan Yunis, which is the southern city, another Hamas stronghold.
01:22 So until now it was believed that they were alive.
01:27 Now the background is that this family has become really the poster family for the pain
01:35 and the grief and the anxiety over the hostages.
01:40 Remember Hamas filmed this mother with a terrified look on her face, grabbing her two kids, both
01:48 of them little redheads, and terrified and being dragged off into a vehicle.
01:58 And I can tell you this specific family, for example, there are solidarity rallies where
02:04 orange balloons are let off into the sky, which are a symbol for this family because
02:11 now after five rounds of hostages coming out, they are still not, they have not been on
02:17 those lists, and we do not believe they're on the list tonight.
02:21 So the IDF is looking into these claims, and everyone is certainly praying that they are
02:27 not true.