News of the Bibas family — innocent souls who were brutally ripped from their home on October 7 — have shaken us to our core. Seeing their coffins marked with the grotesque mislabeling of “Date of Arrest” is nothing short of a desecration of truth and an insult of the highest order — an attempt to erase the basic facts of their unimaginable suffering.

The haunting video of a terrified Shiri Bibas, swaddling her two redheaded boys in a blanket — then 9 months and 4 — as they were whisked away, ricocheted around the world and is burned into the soul of the Jewish people. Our hearts break for them and for Yarden. How does he begin to heal from such wounds? How will our community?

Coffins displayed on a stage, surrounded by rockets and horrible caricatures, as if this cruelty required a theatrical backdrop. What should have been a moment of reverence and mourning was twisted into a spectacle. This entire affair is a chilling reminder of how deep depravity can go.

And yet, we find ourselves asking: Where are the voices of those who marched for a ceasefire but did not demand accountability for Hamas? Where are those who demand justice, compassion, and peace? The silence is deafening.

Oded Lifshitz’s story only deepens this wound. Oded was a lifelong peace activist who volunteered with Road to Recovery, driving Palestinian children from Gaza to Israeli hospitals. His body has now been returned. His legacy of compassion stands in stark contrast to everything he endured before his eventual death — a reminder of just how deep this cuts.

Still, we echo the voices of the families still waiting for their loved one and for the fallen hostages to come home.

We will not stop fighting for the return every hostage who isn’t part of the current deal — for those still alive, clinging to survival, desperate to return to their loved ones and to begin healing. And for those we know are deceased — their families deserve the dignity of closure and the basic right to give their loved ones a proper burial. This cannot continue. Not one more day. The second stage of the deal must happen NOW. There is no more time to waste. Not when every passing moment could mean another life lost, another family shattered. Bring them all home — NOW.

Today, we mourn the loss of life, decency, and moral clarity. And we hold our loved ones closer, praying for a world where such horrors have no place.