- Today is a tragic day.
It's a day of boundless sorrow, of indescribable pain.
4-year-old Ariel Bibas,
his baby brother, 1-year-old Kfir,
and 84-year-old Oded Lifschitz,
were brutally murdered by Hamas savages,
their bodies returned home to a nation in mourning,
a nation that will never forget and never forgive
the evil that cut down these beautiful souls.
The Bibas children in particular became the symbol
of who we are and who we're fighting against.
Here's a photo of the Bibas brothers.
These perfect children, again,
were four years old and less than 1-year-old
when the Hamas savages snatched them
from their mother's arms.
She fought like a lioness to protect her boys.
Just imagine their horror, imagine their confusion.
Perfect little children who never hurt a soul.
A baby, for the love of God.
They languished in captivity
until Hamas murdered them in cold blood.
Who kidnaps a little boy and a baby and murders them?
Monsters, that's who.
These Hamas monsters also cynically refuse
to bring back the boy's mother, Shiri,
and sent the body of a Gazan woman instead
in brazen violation of the agreement.
Today, the heavens shake.
The entire civilized world
should condemn these horrific murders.
The entire civilized world should join Israel
in demanding the immediate release of all the hostages.
All of Israel is united in grief,
and as the prime minister of Israel,
I vow that I will not rest until the savages
who executed our hostages are brought to justice.
They do not deserve to walk this earth.
Nothing will stop me. Nothing.
Ariel, Kfir and Oded,
I'm so sorry we couldn't save you
from the monsters who did this.
We honor your kind and loving souls,
so tragically cut down by evil terror.
May your memories forever be a blessing
and a reminder to all of us that we must fight this evil
and eradicate it from the face of this earth.