Lining Torino’s main commercial thoroughfare, Via Roma, their “Rapito” (Kidnapped) headline contrasts sharply with the elegant shoppers eagerly flooding the street’s upmarket retailers.
This morning, I talked about the child featured in the flyer above with a cousin in Tel Aviv. Hamas had informed the Netanyahu government that Kfir Bibas and his mother had been killed in Israeli attacks.
Asked whether this was true, I said likely so. Hamas could have used them as bargaining chips in the prisoner exchanges that had just concluded. They would have traded them if they could.
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Photograph courtesy of Joel Schalit. All rights reserved.



