Israel vows revenge against Hamas for parading bodies of hostages

Israel has vowed to “settle the score” with Hamas after the terror group held a propaganda-filled parade during Thursday’s hostage exchange, where it blamed the Jewish state and America for the death of the four captives.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the nation was grieving the deaths of the hostages — including Kfir Bibas, who was kidnapped when he was just 9 months old — with the premier warning Hamas that retribution is coming.

“We are all outraged at the Hamas monsters,” Netanyahu said on X. “The voice of our dear ones’ blood cries out to us from the ground.

“It requires us to settle accounts with the depraved murderers – and we will settle the score with them,” he added.

The barbaric treatment drew condemnations from around the world — and even from Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti, who called the display, “a disgrace to Islam.”

The premier then quoted Psalm 94: “O God of vengeance, O Lord; O God show vengeance.”

Israel Defense Minister Israel Katz echoed the outrage and said that Hamas will pay for what it’s done.

“Hamas abducted, Hamas murdered, Hamas will be destroyed,” he posted on X. “We will take revenge against our enemies, and secure our future.”

Ruby Chen, the New York-native who is still waiting for the body of his son, Itay, to be freed from Gaza, blasted the spectacle as clear evidence that Hamas is showing “no dignity” to the captives.

Chen described the images from Gaza as acid being poured on a gaping wound, and he called on the world, specifically Saudi Arabia, to condemn Hamas’ actions.

The display has even drawn condemnation from the Arab world, with Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti, Abdul Aziz Al-Sheikh, joining the international outrage, JFeed reports.

“What we saw today in Gaza is a disgrace to Islam, an act of blasphemy against Allah, and a sin that does not represent the followers of the Prophet, peace be upon him, or the honorable religion of Islam,” Al-Sheikh said in a statement.

The heartbreaking exchange saw the terror group handing over the bodies of tiny hostages Kfir and his brother Ariel Bibas, who was 4 years old when they were violently abducted — along with those of their mother Shiri, 33, and Lifshitz, 84.

Their coffins were displayed on stage in Khan Younis in front of a disturbing mural depicting a bloody Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — pictured like a vampire — standing over photos of the Bibas family and Lifshiftz, alongside a propagandist inscription blaming their deaths on American bombs.

Hillel Fuld, the brother of the Israeli-American journalist who was stabbed to death by a terrorist in the West Bank in 2018, said he was not shocked by the depraved parade, as it was all standard for Hamas.

“It’s shocking to me that anyone was shocked by the satanic parade that we saw today in Gaza. This is Hamas,” Fuld, a 45-year-old Queens native who lives in Israel, told The Post. “This was always Hamas. After today, mothers will stop telling their children that there is no such thing as monsters.”

Michael Levy, the brother of recently freed hostage Or Levy, agreed that the ceremony as “just more proof for how evil this terror organization is,” with the angry sibling calling the terror group “monsters.”

“What kind of human being celebrates the murder of a baby – and a kid?” Levy asked.

“Knowing you have babies and an old man, an innocent woman who was murdered…. And you see people happy and celebrate.. What exactly are you celebrating? What’s wrong with you?” he added.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which helped transfer the bodies out of Gaza, condemned the display as a violation of the victim’s privacy and their families’ right to mourn.

“We have unequivocally clarified that any release — of living hostages or ones that are no longer alive — must be carried out respectfully and privately,” the ICRC said following the display.

The exchange also triggered international outrage, with United Nations human rights chief Austrian Volker Turk slamming Hamas’ gross public display of the victims.

“Under international law, any handover of the remains of the deceased must comply with the prohibition of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, ensuring respect for the dignity of the deceased and their families,” Turk said in a statement.

US Rep. Elise Stefanki (R-NY), President Trump’s pick for America’s Ambassador to the UN, said the parade only reinforces Trump’s support for Israel in the fight against Hamas.

“As we learn more about the tragic fates and devastating loss of life of these innocent victims, we are reminded that this must not be Israel’s fight alone but a fight between good and evil, civilization and barbarity,” she said.  

Irish Foreign Minister Simon Harris said the display was “a stark reminder of the brutality of Oct. 7”

“The parading of caskets of young children by Hamas today was cruel, heartbreaking and utterly despicable, Harris said.

It remains unclear how Israel’s vow for vengeance will affect the already strained cease-fire deal, the second phase of which calls for establishing the terms of a permanent end to the war and the IDF’s withdrawal from Gaza.

Shay Dickman, a cousin of slain hostage Carmel Gat, said it has become clear that Gaza cannot go on with Hamas as their governors as their priority is “horrifying and intimidating people.”

“I believe we will be able to live in coexistence, but it’s impossible with the terror organization ruining the people,” Dickman said.

Fuld said there has been discussions going on among Israelis that the Jewish state should not commit to the cease-fire.

“I think that there’s a lot of discussion in Israel about phase two not happening,” he said. “This shocked the world… But things change at warp speed here, so who knows what’s going to happen by tomorrow.”