A man holds a Winnie-the-Pooh bear at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025, after four bodies were handed over by Hamas militants to the Red Cross in Gaza. Israel has identified three of the bodies as hostages and said the other was of an unknown person. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
JERUSALEM (AP) — Until the end, the Bibas family refused to lose hope that their loved ones held captive in Gaza — Shiri, a young mother, and her two red-headed boys — would return home to Israel alive.
