The Israel Defence Forces and the Shin Bet announced on Sunday that they had killed the terrorist who drove the motorcycle used to abduct Noa Argamani and Avinatan Or during the October 7 massacre.
Saher Nidal Sakr was killed in an airstrike in the Nuseirat area of the central Gaza Strip on Saturday.
Sakr was affiliated with “global jihadist organisations” in the Strip and supplied weapons to Hamas during the current war, the statement said.
He was behind attacks on IDF troops and Israeli civilians using operatives from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, it added.
On July 28, the IDF killed a commander from the Kataeb al-Mujahideen terrorist group who also took part in the abduction of Argamani and Or.
Kataeb al-Mujahideen (“the Mujahideen Brigades”) collaborates closely with terrorists from Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s armed wing, Saraya al-Quds (“the Al-Quds Brigades”).
Argamani and Or, who were a couple at the time, were kidnapped from the Supernova music festival into Gaza. Argamani was freed along with three other hostages in a military rescue mission after 245 days in captivity, on June 8, 2024.
Or was freed after 738 days in Hamas captivity, on October 13, 2025, as part of an agreement involving the release of Palestinian security prisoners.
The Israel Police’s Gideonim Unit 33 also took part in the operation to eliminate Saqr.
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