Tel Aviv, Feb. 22 -- The horrors of the conflict between Israel and Hamas continue with one heart-wrenching incident after another as the mourning over the loss of their loved one never seems to cease.

Israel was struck with sorrow on Friday as Hamas returned the corpses of the youngest hostages - the Bibas brothers, Ariel Bibas (4-year-old) and Kfir Bibas (10 months old).

The atrocities of the conflict shook the nation as Israel mourned in the colour orange - a colour selected to represent the bright red hair of the Bibas children.

The IDF statement came hours after it was discovered that Hamas had not returned the body of the boys' mother Shiri Bibas, and instead sent the body of a Gazan woman and later claimed that there had been a ...