Posted on 09/28/2026 5:51:52 AM PDT by Red Badger
Saher Nidal Saqr seen in video riding motorcycle that carried Argamani into captivity; separate strike last week revealed to have killed Hamas commander who held 9 other hostages.
A Palestinian terrorist who took part in abducting Noa Argamani and Avinatan Or during the October 7, 2023, onslaught was killed in an Israeli strike in the Gaza Strip, the military and Shin Bet announced Sunday.
A strike the day before in central Gaza’s Nuseirat targeted Saher Nidal Saqr, who the IDF said was affiliated with “global jihadist organizations” and invaded Israel on October 7, 2023.
Video of the abduction from the Nova music festival of Argamani and Or, who were a couple, became one of the most widely circulated pieces of footage from the massacre. Footage showed Saqr taking Argamani on a motorcycle to the Strip, as she desperately reached out to Or, who was being marched into captivity.
Argamani was rescued by the IDF in 2024 and Or was released from Gaza last year.
Saturday’s strike was carried out by the Israel Police’s elite Gideonim Unit 33, according to the statement.
Police later published footage of the strike.
VIDEO AT LINK..................
A police video shows a strike on Saher Nidal Saqr in the central Gaza Strip on September 26, 2026. (Israel Police)
Saqr was involved in supplying weapons to Hamas during the war, and recently, he was advancing attacks on troops and Israeli civilians, “in cooperation with terrorist operatives from the military wings of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist organizations, in systematic violation of the ceasefire agreement,” the military said.
October 7, 2023, onslaught. (Israel Defense Forces) A Palestinian terrorist who took part in abducting Noa Argamani and Avinatan Or during the October 7, 2023, onslaught was killed in an Israeli strike in the Gaza Strip, the military and Shin Bet announced Sunday.
A strike the day before in central Gaza’s Nuseirat targeted Saher Nidal Saqr, who the IDF said was affiliated with “global jihadist organizations” and invaded Israel on October 7, 2023.
Video of the abduction from the Nova music festival of Argamani and Or, who were a couple, became one of the most widely circulated pieces of footage from the massacre. Footage showed Saqr taking Argamani on a motorcycle to the Strip, as she desperately reached out to Or, who was being marched into captivity.
Argamani was rescued by the IDF in 2024 and Or was released from Gaza last year.
Saturday’s strike was carried out by the Israel Police’s elite Gideonim Unit 33, according to the statement.
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A police video shows a strike on Saher Nidal Saqr in the central Gaza Strip on September 26, 2026. (Israel Police) Saqr was involved in supplying weapons to Hamas during the war, and recently, he was advancing attacks on troops and Israeli civilians, “in cooperation with terrorist operatives from the military wings of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist organizations, in systematic violation of the ceasefire agreement,” the military said.
The IDF said he was killed to “remove a threat.”
In addition, the IDF and Shin Bet said Sunday that a Hamas commander who held nine other Israeli hostages in captivity was killed in a strike in the Gaza Strip last week.
Released hostage Avinatan Or reunites with his girlfriend and former hostage Noa Argamani, upon his release from captivity on October 13, 2025. (IDF) The Tuesday strike in northern Gaza killed Muhammad Hamad Muhammad Ghabain, whom the IDF said participated in holding hostages Ziv Berman, Gali Berman, Eitan Mor, Liri Albag, Agam Berger, Matan Angrest, Omri Miran, Keith Siegel and Alon Ohel in captivity.
Recently, Ghabain was involved in advancing attacks against Israeli troops and civilians, restoring Hamas capabilities, “in systematic violation of the ceasefire,” the IDF said, adding that he was killed to “remove the threat he posed.”
Earlier this year, the IDF said it killed Ahmed Hussein Mohammed Kafina, a top Hamas commander who was also involved in abducting Argamani and Or.
In other developments, the IDF published drone footage showing a Palestinian child transporting a weapon in the central Gaza Strip.
The IDF said troops had spotted a terror operative “using a child to transport weapons into a civilian home.”
“The terrorist exploited the child and used him as a human shield to transport weapons so that the IDF would not attack and thwart their transfer,” the military claimed.
The IDF did not say when the video was taken.
Adios, Mofo!
Probably looked like the Scarecrow in Wizard of Oz after the Flying Monkeys kidnapped Dorothy...............
I am glad they killed this terrorist and it reminds everyone just how barbaric the October 7 attacks were. Truly evil. I support Israel's retaliation and attempts to stop out the organized terrorism against them. But we have to face reality - world public opinion is against them in a way that it has not been before. I pulled the above quote from the article. In the past, this would be good publicity for the IDF. Now, it seems like these types of revelations don't work anymore. They seem to be winning the battle and losing the war. This goes hand in hand with my thought that, as much as I like Netanyahu, he is probably past his time and its time for new leadership of Likud.
This goes hand in hand with my thought that, as much as I like Netanyahu, he is probably past his time and its time for new leadership of Likud.
Won’t matter, they have hated Israel since the beginning. Now that Muslims have infiltrated the West, that’s why Israel in losing the PR war.
Total justification for continued leveling of the entire area.
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