Terrorist Saher Sakr, who drove the motorcycle on which Noa Argamani was kidnapped on the morning of October 7, was eliminated Saturday in an airstrike in the Nuseirat camp near the al-Nouri tower, the IDF confirmed Sunday after Palestinian media reported the overnight operation. Medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that another person was injured in the strike.
🔴ELIMINATED: Saher Nidal Latfi Sakr, a terrorist operative affiliated with global jihadist organizations operating in Gaza. Among other activities, he supplied weapons to Hamas during the war.
Sakr infiltrated Israel during the October 7 Massacre and drove the motorcycle used… pic.twitter.com/5eHFifE6l9
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) September 27, 2026
Video: The strike that apparently killed the kidnapper of Noa Argamani / Social media
Argamani was kidnapped along with her former partner Avinatan Or from the party in Re'im (a nature party targeted on October 7), and the footage of her being kidnapped to Gaza on a motorcycle and trying to reach out to her partner Avinatan Or was broadcast incessantly and burned into memory as one of the most symbolic images of the massacre.
"Saher Nidal Latfi Sakr, a terrorist operative affiliated with global jihadist organizations operating in Gaza. Among other activities, he supplied weapons to Hamas during the war," the IDF said on X. "Sakr infiltrated Israel during the October 7 Massacre and drove the motorcycle used to abduct Noa Argamani and Avinatan Or from the Nova music festival into Gaza. Recently, Sakr advanced attacks targeting Israeli civilians & IDF troops. He was eliminated in order to remove the threat he posed."
Argamani was rescued in June 2024 in Operation Arnon, a joint rescue mission of the Yamam (the national counter-terrorism unit), the Shin Bet (the Israel Security Agency) and the IDF (the Israel Defense Forces) along with hostages Shlomi Ziv, Almog Meir Jan and Andrey Kozlov. She told her family members, "Four times I saw death in front of my eyes. One time a missile entered the house and then there was an explosion. I was sure I was dead."
🇮🇱Segundo relatos, as IDF ❌eliminaram nesta manhã, em Nuseirat, Saher Saker, apontado como um dos participantes do sequestro de Noa Argamani em 7 de outubro.
Noa foi resgatada com vida por Israel em 2024. 🇮🇱 pic.twitter.com/4hF9YqZcYN
— Monica Laredo (@MonicaLaredo2) September 27, 2026
For eight months the family of Argamani, whose kidnapping on the motorcycle became a symbol, fought for her to return.
About a year ago the IDF and the Shin Bet revealed that following an intelligence deciphering, terrorist Ahmed Ibrahim Rajab Shaer, who was among those responsible for the kidnapping of Argamani and Or from the Nova festival, was eliminated.
