Israel’s propaganda machine has long pushed — hard — a narrative that Hamas killed Israeli citizen Shiri Bibas and her two young children ‘by hand’ and that their deaths were only discovered early this year. It lied.

UK PM Keir Starmer avidly reinforced this false narrative in his statement about the return of their bodies from Gaza in February 2025. This came despite Israeli military spokesman, Daniel Hagari, admitting during a press conference on the week before, that Israel had known for months that they were dead. In fact it knew since November 2023, just a month after their abduction during the 7 October raid in southern Israel.

Western media manufactures consent

Western media similarly regurgitated the lie with headlines such as ‘Hope turns to heartbreak for Israel’s Bibas hostage family.‘ Again this comes after the father of the family, Harden Bibas, had said a year earlier, in a video made in captivity, that they had been killed. Like many Israeli captives — and tens of thousands of Palestinian women and children — they were killed by Israeli bombs.

Bibas added that he had long begged Netanyahu to agree with the Palestinian resistance for their bodies to be returned. All this led to the wider Bibas family refusing to allow Netanyahu or any of his ministers to attend the funeral.

But now, the admission has come from the very top of Israel’s organisation responsible for retrieving the bodies of Israeli captives killed in Gaza.

In a media interview, Maj Gen Nitzan Alon, who has just stepped down as head of Israel’s ‘Hostages and Missing Persons’ unit, admitted not only that Israel knew it had killed the Bibases and others, but also that Israel knew that Hamas had not taken them:

Take the Bibas family, for example. We knew who abducted them. We informed Hamas who the kidnappers were so they could locate the bodies and return them.

None of this has stopped the Zionist press and other colluding media from continuing to claim otherwise. Only last Monday, 8 December 2025 — months after Alon’s admission — the Jewish News performed outrage to condemn independent MP Iqbal Mohamed for suggesting that Israel was responsible for their deaths.

Hannibal directive

On top of captives it killed in Gaza, Israel also killed most of the Israelis who died on 7 October 2023, in repeated ‘Hannibal directive’ — deliberate ‘friendly fire’ — attacks by tanks and, especially, helicopters that incinerated hundreds of vehicles and their largely Israeli occupants.

Then-Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant, the IDF, and[Israeli media](http://then-israeli/ defence minister Yoav Gallant, by the IDF and by Israeli media) have admitted the Hannibal directive attacks, which began before dawn and continued — every twenty minutes until — after nine in the evening. But, like the truth about who killed the Bibases — western ‘mainstream’ media, including in the UK — continue to suspiciously ignore it.

With Israel and its mouthpieces, every accusation is a confession. UK politicians and media will amplify the false accusations and turn a blind eye and deaf ear to when evidence of the accusations pile up on Israel.

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