At Foreign Ministry event, and facing Minister Sa'ar: Ofri Bibas criticized the government

Ofri Bibas sharply criticized the government at a Foreign Ministry event marking three years since the October 7 massacre, defining the failure to establish a state commission of inquiry as an evasion of responsibility. Minister Gideon Sa'ar, who attended the event, was embarrassed according to sources present. The event was attended by 100 foreign ambassadors and diplomats.

Ofri Bibas, whose sister-in-law Shiri and two nephews Ariel and Kfir were kidnapped on October 7, 2023, and murdered in Hamas captivity, sharply criticized the Israeli government at an event held by the Foreign Ministry to mark three years since the massacre. Bibas defined the failure to establish a state commission of inquiry as an "evasion of responsibility," emphasizing that responsibility should be both Israeli and international to prevent such cases from recurring. According to sources present, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar was embarrassed by the criticism. The event was attended by 100 foreign ambassadors and diplomats, along with the Vice President of Paraguay, Pedro Alliana. The Foreign Ministry invited the Chinese ambassador, a country that supported Hamas, but not Taiwan's senior diplomat in Israel, Abby Lee, who supported Israel throughout the war. As part of the event, a photo exhibition was displayed and a video about the Bibas family was screened. Sa'ar delivered remarks and attacked the international community for imposing restrictions and sanctions on Israel, saying that anti-Semitism is "fashionable again."