On October 7th, 2023, Kfir Bibas, a 10 month old baby boy, was abducted by Hamas militants and he is still has been held captive in Gaza for more than 50 days, which means that he has spent more than one fifth of his life time in captivity.

Hamas has attacked one of the communities and abducted a great number of people, including children, mothers, elders and others on October 7th.

The public’s greatest concern is a 10 month old boy named Kfir Bibas who has been abducted on October 7th and he is too young to stay alive within the Hamas militants.

Kfir was known to be a fragile child as he was suffering from several medical conditions.

He was a child who needed acute care and medical treatment, which required him to stay in a state of emotional peace in order to not be so stressed.

His life could be at risk by Hamas's violent actions and people are in despair whether the innocent child’s life would have been already taken away.

Kfir lives in his home of Southern Israel and has been separated from his family, who does not know whether he is alive or not.

Eylon Keshet, one of the cousins of Kfir, disclosed that the family is profoundly worried about the boy and deeply traumatized about losing a family member; she revealed her deep profound sadness as she holded a photograph of the baby boy Kfir.

Everyone doubts that Kfir will be able to come back alive as there are so many threats and dangers that he will be exposed to in Hamas.

Moreover, as Hamas’ attack on the community, they murdered more than a quarter of the community members, which is an incredibly large number of people being sacrificed.

In fact, Hamas not only murdered people but also has set the community on fire in order to destroy their housings, possessions, and others.

This incident drew a lot of attention to Hamas.

Hamas, a Palestinian group, has run Gaza since 2007, and Hamas stands for Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya, meaning that it is an Islamic resistance movement.

Hamas aspires to destroy Israel and wishes to replace Israel with an Islamic state.

In order to achieve their goals, Hamas have taken many actions such as firing myriads of rockets to Israel and conducting deadly attacks to demolish Israel’s power.

Due to these incidents, Hamas became recognized as a terrorist group by several nations worldwide such as the US, the EU, the UK, Israel, and other countries.

A relieving point is that part of the truce agreement includes the release of Palestinian women and children from the prisons.

These freed people could avoid being charged or being sentenced, and thus offering the possibility of returning back to their homes.

Within the lists of who will be freed from Hamas, people are unable to find the name of Kfir and his family members: Ariel and Shira.

People are deeply mourning and hoping for his name to be seen on the list.

To show their aspiration, more than 100 people released orange balloons in the air as a way to show how much they wish to see young children being freed from Hamas.

Overall, people are truly waiting for the little boy to come back to his own home where he can be safe and be in a state of emotional peace.

It is revealed that more than 14,800 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza when Israel portrayed an offensive response against Hama for their terrorist attacks.

Among the death of 14,800 people, 6,000 people were young children, who died innocently without knowing the relations between Hamas and Israel.

Doyeon Kim

Grade 11

Cornerstone Collegiate Academy of Seoul