Hope for Israel’s youngest hostage as Kfir who was kidnapped at just 9 months old is one of 34 named in deal by Hamas
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HOPE is glimmering for the youngest Hamas hostage as he has been earmarked for release in the group's latest deal with Israel. Kfir Bibas was kidnapped at just nine months old and is now one of the 34 names on a list issued by the terrorists. The Bibas family’s ordeal began in unimaginable horror on October 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists stormed the Nir Oz Kibbutz in southern Israel.
![[Kfir Bibas, the youngest hostage taken by Hamas who turned one in January 2024, could be released]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image_4f2fb4.png?strip=all&w=620)
Baby Kfir was taken alongside his four-year-old brother Ariel and their mother, Shiri. The tod, nearing his second birthday, remains the youngest hostage taken in the attack after spending most of his life in captivity. But reports now suggest that Kfir’s name is on a list of 34 hostages that Hamas has agreed to release as part of a potential prisoner exchange deal.
![[The infamous footage of Kfir and his brother Ariel in the arms of their desperate mum Shiri Bibas as they were kidnapped on October 7]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image_a235f2.png?strip=all&w=620)
It gives a glimmer of hope for the boy's devastated family, though it comes amidst agonising uncertainty. Hamas has claimed that Kfir, Ariel, and Shiri were killed in an Israeli airstrike in late 2023, a claim the family has refused to accept as truth.
![[Kfir's dad Yarden Bibas (left) gave himself over to Hamas in the hopes of saving his family but was brutally killed by the terrorists]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/sunday-features-israel-october-7th-938020143.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
“We decided as a family we’re going to keep fighting and shouting for them, as if what Hamas said has never happened,” Kfir’s aunt, Ofri Bibas Levy, previously told The Sun. “Even if there’s a one percent chance it’s not true, we will hold on to hope.”.
![[Orange balloons, a teddy bear cake and pictures of him painted a somber image as Kfir spent his first birthday in captivity]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/birthday-cake-kfir-bibas-hostage-872458622.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
