UN denounces Hamas’s ‘abhorrent’ display of hostages’ coffins

Palestinian militants carry a coffin on the day Hamas hands over deceased hostages Oded Lifschitz, Shiri Bibas and her two children Kfir and Ariel Bibas, seized during the Oct. 7, 2023 attack, to the Red Cross, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Feb. 20, 2025. (Reuters)

“The parading of bodies in the manner seen this morning is abhorrent and cruel,” said the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

GENEVA: The UN human rights group on Thursday denounced the “abhorrent and cruel” manner that Hamas staged the handover of the bodies of four hostages to Israel.
“The parading of bodies in the manner seen this morning is abhorrent and cruel, and flies in the face of international law,” said the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.