Friday
Yom Shishee
23 Shevat 5785
February 21 2025
UPDATE 9:30 AM ISRAEL TIME
*What was avoided last night was a massive attack.
*It is being reported that 15 buses were scheduled to explode in and around Tel Aviv and the light rail was to have been attacked by 5 suicide bombers who were going to detonate themselves.
*It turns out that the Bibas family was “handled” and murdered by the “Lords of the Desert” Salafi-Jihadist terror organization.
UPDATE 6:00 AM ISRAEL TIME
The View from Ashdod
Shiri’s children are dead, but where is Shiri?
By now, you know the dramatic news.
The autopsies performed on the four bodies released by Hamas yesterday revealed that one was that of 85-year-old Oded Lifshitz, two were those of the Bibas children, and the other one was not that of Shiri Bibas.
The statement from the IDF said that the autopsy of the children revealed that they were both “brutally murdered” in November of 2023. What that means is unknown at this point except to say that the IDF statement said that the autopsies revealed that they did not die in an IAF bombing attack as Hamas claimed.
As for the anonymous woman who was thought to be Shiri, little was revealed except that “it was obvious” from the clothing she was wearing that the woman was not Shiri–and that multiple tests were performed on the body to ensure proper identification.
All of this came after another gruesome Hamas “release spectacle” which featured terrorists involved in the October 7 massacres standing around and even carrying the coffins. Al-Jazeera, which Hamas gave exclusive rights to cover the release, even interviewed a terrorist beside the coffins who said he participated in the kidnapping of the Bibas family.
Not only that but also, several senior Hamas leaders whom the IDF had reported that we had eliminated were very much alive and standing in the first row of terrorists.
So where does all of this leave us this morning?
The first question is “where is Shiri Bibas?”
The second question the answer to which will eventually be revealed is “how were Kfir and Ariel Bibas murdered”?
The third question is “where does the hostage release and terrorist release go from here?” 600 terrorists are scheduled to be released tomorrow for 6 live hostages.
The Bus Bombs Last Night
One of the bus explosions in Bat Yam last night:
Around 9 pm last night five bombs exploded on buses in central Israel near Tel Aviv:
*3 empty buses blew up in three separate parking lots in Bat Yam.
*2 more buses exploded in Holon–one near Wolfson Hospital.
Remarkably no one was wounded. In at least one incident, a passenger warned the bus driver about an unattended package. The driver immediately drove to a parking lot and offloaded all of his passengers and left the bus. It exploded shortly thereafter.
The words: “Revenge from Tulkarm” were found written on one of the devices. It is also initially surmised by the police that the bombs were mistimed–they were supposed to go off at 9 am this morning instead of 9 pm last night.
Following the attacks, PM Netanyahu met with the Minister of Defense, the IDF Chief of Staff, the Shin Bet Chief, and the Police Commissioner and instructed them to carry out “a massive operation against terrorist hotspots in Judea and Samaria.”
The IDF is deploying three additional battalions there this morning.
And so it goes in Israel on this rainy morning . . . so far . . .
A student from Malawi, who had worked with an Israeli health volunteer in his country battling AIDS, came up to us as we walked down the street in the UC-Davis Picnic Day Parade and wanted to carry the Israeli flag.