Israel “fearing for the lives” of the Biba family, of a mother and two children, one of whom is still an infant, who were taken hostage on October 7 by Hamas, the Israeli military spokesman said today.

“We fear for their lives,” Daniel Haggari said after the military released footage he says shows Siri Biba’s back to the camera surrounded by seven armed men in the Gaza Strip on the day she was captured. .

These images come from a camera on a road in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Hagari explained. Siri Bibas can be seen wrapped in what looks like a sheet, holding a child on her shoulder, in the courtyard of a building, while being carried in a car.

Kfir Bibas, the youngest Israeli hostage, was about nine months old when he was snatched from his crib in Kibbutz Nir Oz. Hamas said in November that the baby, his 4-year-old brother and his mother were killed by Israeli shelling, but Israeli authorities have not confirmed this.

In a statement, the Bibas family today asked “those who make the decisions, in Israel and the world, and those involved in the negotiations (to release the hostages) to bring them home now.”

“Child abduction is a crime against humanity and a war crime, Ariel and Kfir are victims of a monstrous evil,” the family added.

Hamas had released a video featuring the children’s father, Yarden Bibas, who was also kidnapped on October 7. Of the approximately 250 hostages kidnapped and forcibly taken to the Gaza Strip that day, more than 75 lived in the Nir Oz kibbutz.

The videos showing Siri Biba, her features distorted by terror in front of her captors, clutching her two children in her arms, became the symbol of the violence and aggression that marked the Israelis. Relatives of the family symbolically celebrated Kfir’s first birthday on February 17.

According to the Israeli authorities, 130 hostages still remain in Gaza and of these 30 are dead.