Holding flags, orange balloons and signs that said “forgive us”, tens of thousands of Israelis lined highways as the bodies of a mother and her two young sons, killed in captivity in the Gaza Strip, were taken for burial on
Wednesday.
The plight of the Bibas family has come to embody the profound sense of loss and grief still permeating Israel after the militant Hamas group’s October 7, 2023 attack that triggered the war.