Ofri Bibas, sister of released hostage Yarden Bibas, slammed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, telling him to “shut up” after he repeatedly described the murders in captivity of Yarden’s wife Shiri and young sons Ariel and Kfir, against the wishes of the family.

She also took Israeli news outlets, social media users and public diplomats to task for what she said was a blatant violation of the wishes of the family.

Publishing such information over the family’s repeated requests was “abuse for its own sake of a family that has gone through 16 months of hell and still has the worst ahead,” wrote Ofri Bibas on Facebook, a day before the funeral of her nephews and sister-in-law.

Netanyahu had described the young boys’ murder in graphic detail in a speech before the America Israel Public Action Committee on Tuesday, and, while holding a picture of the victims, at a military ceremony on Sunday.

Following the Sunday speech, the Bibas family sent a cease and desist letter to Netanyahu’s and other government offices asking they stop publishing details of the murders of Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas’s, the Ynet news site reported.

The family also issued a statement via the Hostages and Missing Families Forum on Saturday requesting media outlets “stop adding details to the fact that Shiri and the kids were murdered by their captors.”

Yarden, Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas were kidnapped from their Kibbutz Nir Oz home on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, sparking the war in Gaza.

Hamas on Thursday released the bodies of hostages Oded Lifshitz, Ariel and Kfir Bibas, and an unidentified Gaza woman who the terror group said was Shiri Bibas. After Israel protested, Hamas on Saturday returned Shiri Bibas’s body. Yarden Bibas had returned alive on February 1.

They were returned to Israel as part of the Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal’s first phase, which comprised 33 women, children, civilian men over 50, and those deemed “humanitarian cases.”

On Friday, after Israel confirmed the identities of Ariel, 4, and Kfir Bibas, nine months old, IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said the boys’ captors had murdered them in November 2023 “in cold blood” and “with bare hands” and committed atrocities to hide the evidence — contrary to Hamas’s claim that the boys and their mother were killed in an Israeli airstrike. Hagari added that Yarden Bibas had asked him to ensure the world “knows and is horrified by the way his children were murdered.”

Responding to an Israeli journalist who accused his peers of using the family’s plight for propaganda, Ofri Bibas said that “it’s very easy for everyone to speak on behalf of the Bibas family.”

“As someone who sat in the room with Hagari that day, I’ll write this: Yarden and the family approved, word for word, what the IDF spokesman said in the statement. Nothing more,” she said.

She said authorities were yet to complete their report on the murders, much less present it to the family, which, to its great consternation, nonetheless found out details from “the media, public diplomacy apparatus, Twitter users and yes, for whatever reason, even the prime minister.”

“If I could say one thing to everyone on behalf of the Bibas family: Just shut up,” wrote Ofri Bibas.

“There are many ways to conduct public diplomacy [which, by the way, has not been done here since October 7] sensitively, respectfully and in coordination with the family,” she said, adding that it was futile to respond to her because “we’re getting ready for tomorrow and trying to think how we could possibly bury Shiri, Ariel and Kfir.”

The burial will take place in a closed ceremony in Zohar, close to Nir Oz, following a public procession. The family has urged the public to join the procession and said it would livestream the eulogies.

Ofri Bibas has previously accused Netanyahu of failing to apologize for her family’s fate, and said on behalf of her brother that “forgiveness should come first and foremost with the return of all the hostages.”

Netanyahu has held off on negotiating the hostage deal’s second phase, which would see Hamas release the remaining living hostages. The premier’s right-wing flank has threatened to topple the government should it proceed to the second phase, which would require Israel to pull out of Gaza.