India, Feb. 20 -- The coffins of four Israeli hostages that Hamas recently released had to be passed through metal detectors in a final act of sickening insult. The coffins, including those of the two Bibas children, were passed through metal detectors to make sure they were not booby-trapped.

The terror group handed over the bodies of little Kfir Bibasm along with his brother, Ariel, who was kidnapped when he was four, their mother, Shiri, 33, and Oded Lifshitz, 84. Kfir was the youngest Israeli hostage, having been abducted when he was nine months old.

Initially, Israeli sources told Kan, Israel's national broadcaster, that the caskets were locked shut and that a key wasn't provided. However, Israel Defense Force officials later told ...