Argentina Mourns the Bibas Family

-Times of Israel

On Monday, thousands of people took to the streets of Buenos Aires to mourn the deaths of Shiri Binas and her two children, Kfir and Ariel, at the hands of Hamas. Shiri's father had immigrated from Argentina to Israel, where Shiri was born. The demonstration, which featured the Israeli ambassador to Argentina, also expressed its support for Israel and its disgust at the horrific actions of the Hamas terrorists.

The below article in the Mendoza Post (Argentina) is translated by Fousesquawk. 

Caption: In an event organized by Israeli-Argentine associations in CABA (Buenos Aires), a wave of orange scarves honored the memory of the victims of Hamas.

Thousands of Argentines remembered the Bibas family    

Edited Ana Montes de Oca  Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Thousands of people gathered on Monday in front of the Nautical Club Hacoaj, in the city of Buenos Aires in memory of Shiri, Kfir, and Ariel Bibas, to demand the liberation of the kidnapped (people) in Gaza, and to stand with the families of all the victims of the attacks perpetrated by Hamas.

The event was organized by the Israeli embassy in Argentina, the Mutual Israeli Argentina Association (AMIA), the Delegation of Israel Associations in Argentina (DAIA), the Zionist Organization of Argentina (OSA), and the Forum of Families of the Kidnapped and Disappeared.

Caption: The gathering was multitudinous 

Present were the Israeli ambassador to Argentina, Eyal Sela, the Minister of Security for Buenos Aires, Waldo Wolff, and the heads of the AMIA, Amos Linetzky, DAIA, Mauro Berenstein, and the OSA, Demian Stratievsky, as well as the head of the TADEA Foundation, Mario Montoto.

During the event, which began at 18:30 and was led by the journalist Alfred Leuco, the action of Hamas was denounced, and the necessity of society uniting in the rejection of terrorism. A few minutes before 19:00, Leuco recalled the "profound pain" of the Jewish community and Argentina in general, highlighting the recent arrival in Israel of the bodies of little Kfir and Ariel Bibas y Oded Lifshitz, victims of the October 7 attacks.

Ambassador Eyal Sela stated: "We had the hope of seeing them again after October 7. We know that they were murdered during captivity. The Bibas family asked that we do not give details of the brutality with which they were murdered. Hamas is the one guilty of this."  He also compared the acts of Hamas with Nazism and called radical Islamism "the evil of this century". Sela also gave thanks for the support of the Argentine president, Javier Milei, and the head of the government of Buenos Aires, Jorge Macri.

The head of AMIA, Amos Linetzky, also thanked the Argentine government for declaring two days of national mourning and criticized those who "have remained silent" in the face of the Hamas attacks. "It is still hard for us to digest and accept the pogrom of October 7, 2023. We point out the silence of the cowards who choose to be silent in the face of fundamentalist hate," he stated.  He also questioned the Left Front deputy, Vanidad Biassi, and activist Adolfo Perez Esquivel, whom he called  "The spokesman of fundamentalist Islamism". He also criticized the International Red Cross for its role in the conflict and Amnesty International for its accusations of genocide against Israel.

Mauro Berenstein, head of the DAIA, called the acts of Hamas "absolute evil" and accused the terrorist group of condemning  the future of entire generations through the indoctrination of hate."

Among the attendees, a wave of orange scarves, alluding to the hair color of the brothers, Kfir and Ariel Bibas, mixed with the flags of Israel and Argentina.