Hamas’s military arm announced on Tuesday that it had supposedly uncovered the bodies of two Israeli hostages, Amiram Cooper and Sahar Baruch, somewhere inside the Gaza Strip. The terror group released the statement hours after a new wave of confusion surrounding its ongoing manipulation of hostage information.
Just hours earlier, Hamas had reneged on its pledge to return the body of an Israeli hostage. The group claimed the decision was in response to an IDF airstrike that followed an incident in Rafah, where Hamas gunmen opened fire on Israeli soldiers engaged in engineering work near the border area.
On Tuesday morning, Israeli authorities confirmed that the body transferred by Hamas the previous night was not that of a newly identified hostage at all. Instead, the remains were determined to belong to Ofir Sarfati, a hostage who had already been retrieved and laid to rest nearly two years ago, exposing yet another act of deceit by the terror organization.
Following a thorough forensic investigation at the Abu Kabir Institute of Forensic Medicine, Israeli experts confirmed that the remains indeed matched those of Sarfati, closing the loop on what officials described as another cruel Hamas fabrication meant to sow confusion and pain.
{Matzav.com}
