Israel tracks down and kills motorbike-riding Hamas terrorist who kidnapped October 7 hostage Noa Argamani

Israel has tracked down and killed the Palestinian militant suspected of kidnapping Israeli hostages Noa Argamani and Avinatan Or during Hamas' deadly attack on October 7, 2023.In a statement on X, the IDF said Saher Nidal Latfi Sakr supplied weapons to Hamas during the war and drove the motorbike used to kidnap Argamani and Or from the Nova music festival into Gaza.'Recently, Sakr advanced attacks targeting Israeli civilians and IDF troops. He was eliminated in order to remove the threat he posed,' the statement said.Footage of Argamani’s kidnapping at the desert rave, where almost 400 partygoers were killed, was one of the first videos of the massacre to surface and became one of the most widely recognised images of the attacks.She could be seen seated on the back of a motorcycle behind her Hamas captor, screaming in terror, 'Don’t kill me!', and stretching her arms out toward her then-boyfriend, Or.Further footage showed her crying out while being manhandled by a group of terrorists on the motorbike, with one of them forcibly holding a black bag over her head.Sakr was killed in an airstrike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, in an operation by Israel Police's Gideonim Unit 33.The IDF said he was affiliated with 'global jihadist organisations' and was part of attacks on troops and Israeli civilians. Israel has tracked down and killed the Palestinian militant suspected of kidnapping Israeli hostage Noa Argamani during Hamas' attack on October 7, 2023 Footage of Argamani’s kidnapping at the desert rave, where almost 400 partygoers were killed, was one of the first videos of the massacre to surface Saher Nidal Latfi Sakr was killed in an airstrike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, in an operation by Israel Police's Gideonim Unit 33Sakr operated 'in cooperation with terrorist operatives from the military wings of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist organisations, in systematic violation of the ceasefire agreement,' the IDF said.Footage released by the Israeli military, purportedly showing the moment of his death, shows the militant walking by a building before an enormous explosion.His remains can be seen on the pavement as massive plumes of smoke cascade into the air.Argamani, who has Chinese heritage, was rescued from Gaza on June 8, 2024, after 246 days in captivity.As a hostage, she witnessed a fellow captive executed in front of her eyes, nearly died herself in an airstrike, was forcibly starved, and worried each day that her terminally ill mother, Liora, had died in Israel.Doctors since said it was a 'miracle' Argamani survived as she was given no medical attention. Or, who was held separately in central Gaza, was released after 738 days as part of the ceasefire brokered by US President Donald Trump in October 2025.At 6.29am on October 7, 2023, Hamas stormed the Israeli border and launched its unprecedented attack, resulting in the single deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust.Militants killed over 1,200 people and took another 251 people hostage during the onslaught. Israel’s retaliatory military offensive plunged the Gaza Strip into a humanitarian crisis and has killed more than 73,000 Palestinians, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry - figures considered reliable by the UN. Saqr operated 'in cooperation with terrorist operatives from the military wings of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist organisations, in systematic violation of the ceasefire agreement,' the IDF said The IDF said he was affiliated with 'global jihadist organisations' and was part of attacks on troops and Israeli civilians Argamani, who has Chinese heritage, was rescued from Gaza on June 8, 2024, after 246 days in captivityPresident Trump's Board of Peace unveiled a $2.45 billion plan ​last week to begin rebuilding Gaza, but officials acknowledged it faces an uncertain future as Israel ‌and Hamas remain at odds over terms of the US-backed ceasefire. The proposal, laid out by board officials at an event during the UN General Assembly in New York, consists of 66 programmes that would rehabilitate Gaza's infrastructure and economy, destroyed by two years of ​full-scale Israeli military assault. It was the latest plan aimed at advancing Trump's Gaza ceasefire, which was announced ​nearly a year ago but has failed to halt Israeli attacks on Gaza, including one on September 23 that killed four people including a Hamas official.US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters in New ​York: 'Obviously this is a longterm project. It's not something that can happen in six months. But at least gives people ​a hope. Here’s the future that awaits you if everyone does their part.'Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, who devised the Gaza plan while backing Israel's right to 'finish the job' in Gaza if Hamas does not disarm, acknowledged the proposal faced 'different delays on different things, for ​whatever reason'.'We're just refining, sharpening the axe, getting ready for when we get to the time to cut ​the tree,' Kushner said. 'And hopefully, that will be very, very soon.'Nearly a year after a ceasefire ended ‌major ⁠fighting in Gaza, reconstruction has yet to begin with negotiators failing to agree conditions for Hamas to lay down its weapons and Israel to withdraw its troops.Most buildings have been destroyed and more than 2 million residents are confined to around a third of the enclave's territory, mostly in tents or crowded rooms in damaged buildings among the ​ruins.The Board of Peace plan ​estimates ⁠physical damage in Gaza at $35.2 billion and says full recovery and reconstruction will require about $71.4 billion over the next decade.Its plan calls for repairing border crossings, restoring electricity and ​water infrastructure, deploying 25,000 portable solar power kits and permanently filling tunnels beneath sites ​needed for ⁠priority reconstruction projects.Nickolay Mladenov, the board's lead Gaza envoy, said that he and other officials do not want Gaza to go back to the way it was before the war.'We want to give people a new chance, and we want ⁠to make ​sure that both the Palestinians in Gaza and Israeli communities living across ​the border have a chance to put behind them this fear of violence that has driven their lives for so many years,' Mladenov ​said.