Israel says checking claims new body handed to Red Cross is Shiri Bibas

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have said they are looking into reports that Hamas has handed the body of hostage Shiri Bibas to the Red Cross on Friday evening.

The reports are “currently under review”, IDF international spokesperson Lt Col Nadav Shoshani wrote in a post on X.

It comes after Israel said forensic testing showed a body handed over on Thursday, said by Hamas to be Shiri Bibas, was not that of the Israeli mother but a different unidentified woman.

The IDF is in contact with the Bibas family, Shoshani said. “We emphasise the family’s request to show responsibility and not publish unauthorised reports,” he added.

Israel’s National Centre for Forensic Medicine was preparing to conduct an identification test on the body, Israel’s Channel 12 reported.