by Camilla Turner, Telegraph
Iqbal Mohamed is accused of disinformation and victim-blaming in social media post on deaths of hostage Bibas family
A Pro-Gaza MP is facing investigation by the parliamentary watchdog over Oct 7 “atrocity denial”, The Telegraph has learnt.
Iqbal Mohamed, the independent MP for Dewsbury and Batley, has been accused of spreading “disinformation” about the fate of Israeli hostages kidnapped by Hamas and taken into Gaza.
He is also accused of “victim-blaming” by alleging that Shiri Bibas and her sons Ariel, four, and Kfir, nine months, who were abducted by Hamas from their kibbutz, were murdered by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
In a post on X last month, the MP claimed: “Israeli officials confirm that the Bibas family were murdered by the Israeli terror forces under the ‘Hannibal Directive’ yet you continue to peddle lies & accuse me of sharing conspiracies. The Zionist lie machine won’t work!”
The family became a symbol of Hamas’s brutality after video footage emerged of Mrs Bibas clutching her red-headed sons as terrorists dragged them into captivity. Her husband, Yarden, 34, was also kidnapped from the family home in Kibbutz Nir Oz.
Mr Bibas was released from captivity on Feb 1, 2025, having survived his imprisonment, and later that month the bodies of his wife and children were returned to Israel.