Kafr and Ariel Pepas were seen last time on October 7 with the hands of their mother Sherry around them, adhering to her children surrounded by gunmen and violence, in an attempt to protect them. You could not.

According to the Israeli army, the last moments of Kfir and Ariel were in the “bare hands” of their hijackers.

How can Eulogise children who barely lived their lives?

Kfir Bibas, a hostage at only nine months, did not live to take his first steps or celebrate his first birthday.

Ariel Pepas had only seen four years of life that should have been much longer.

A statement issued by Kibbutz Nir Oz described, where the children were taken as hosts, as “a quiet child and smile, with ginger and laughing hair that would make the heart of anyone melt. Wherever he goes to his smile and his joy”

They said that Ariel was “a terrifying boy with ginger hair, curious eyes and a big smile. He loved superheroes, tractors and cars, running without stopping, climbing and exploring the world.”

The two brothers have become the greatest symbol of the nightmare of the Israeli hostages. Bring the Bibas family at home was the great hope of the country.

Over the past 16 months, they have been remembered, they were prayed for them, and they kept people’s hearts, not only in Israel but by Jews and others around the world.

Pictures of boys were shared in Batman fashion with Ariel Cape flying in the wind; From the older brother Ariel embraces his infant brother Kfir when he was born; From KFIR laughs and Goringng as his father Yarden played with him.

After that, the image in the minds has embraced since the Hamas attack on October 7: The children hold their mother Sherry Pipas, and her face was tortured in fear, where they were surrounded by gunmen and transported to Gaza.

No one in Israel wants this end. KFIR and Ariel, not to their innocent childhood, but with the tender years have already ended. And where their mother, who was protecting them until the last minute even with them.

In Israel, there is mass pain and sadness.

In a video clip, the Israeli Prime Minister said that Ariel, Kafir Pepas and Oded Lifschitz, whose body was restored on Thursday, “was brutally killed by Hamas Savayesh.”

Benjamin Netanyahu said: “Today is a tragic day, it is an indescribable day.

“Their bodies return to the homeland to a nation in mourning.

Netanyahu said: “Whoever disappears a young boy and a child and kills them? The monsters. This is.”

“Pain. Pain. Our hearts – the hearts of an entire nation – lie in a deplorable state.” Requesting forgiveness on behalf of the country for not protecting them and returning them home.

Sherry, Ariel and Kafir Pepas were 32 years old or four and nine months when they were kidnapped during the October 7 attacks.

About 1,200 people – most of them civilians – were killed in attacks and 251 others who recovered into Gaza. Israel launched a huge military campaign against Hamas in response, which killed at least 4,829 Palestinians – as civilians – according to the Hamas Ministry of Health.

This week, in Israel and abroad, people on social media posted pictures of broken orange hearts to represent children with amazing ginger hair.

On Thursday, when the vehicles containing Bibas and Lifschit children crossed to Israel, people who lined the streets with Israeli flags shouted.

In October 2023 a few weeks after their kidnapping, the Bibas brothers’ aunt spoke to BBC.

Offy Bibas Levy described how KFIR just started crawling and eating solid food.

She said: “They are civilians and are not supposed to be there. The longer their existence, the more it will be to recover, and the less chance is alive.”

I wrote on Friday on Facebook: “I’m sorry for Lolli [Ariel]I am sorry Fairfer [Kfir].

“You don’t deserve any of this. We will miss you forever. We are not abandoning your mother Sherry.”

“Sherry, Ariel and Kfir were taken alive by a deadly terrorist organization, and it was the responsibility of Israel and faced it by returning it alive,” she added in a video statement.

“There is no forgiveness to abandon them on October 7 and do not forgive to give up in captivity. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, we did not receive an apology from you at this painful moment. For Ariel and Kafir, and for Yardin, we are not seeking revenge now.

Yarden BIBAS, who was only released, just hosts, must bury the young boy, with his wife Shiri no longer by Hamas.

In Israel, they quote words painfully resonate: “The smallest coffin is heavier.”