Oct 7 motorcycle kidnapper blown up by IDF
An October 7 terrorist who abducted Israeli civilians from the Nova music festival on a motorbike has been killed in an air strike in Gaza. Saher Nidal Latfi Sakr kidnapped Noa Argamani in images that circulated widely in the aftermath of the Oct 7 attacks. Nearly three years on, the Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ) launched an operation to assassinate him inside Gaza. Israeli police released footage of the assassination, showing Sakr walking towards a house during the day.
Shortly afterwards, a car appears from the house’s driveway, and an air strike targets Sakr, who is standing next to another man. Dozens of people rush to the scene after the dust settles. The IDF said Sakr was a “terrorist operative affiliated with global jihadist organisations operating in Gaza” and that he “advanced attacks targeting Israeli civilians and IDF troops”. Sakr also supplied arms to Hamas during the war. The IDF “eliminated” him to “remove the threat he posed”.
Left out here: Leaves out what changes the picture
The article places the strike only 'inside Gaza'. It never says it hit the Nuseirat refugee camp, a crowded civilian area, so a reader pictures an isolated targeted strike.
How we know
- Ynet News (English) reported“was killed Saturday in an airstrike in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza”Oct. 7 terrorist involved in Noa Argamani abduction killed in Gaza strike, reports say (opens in a new tab)
The statement was accompanied by some of the most well-known footage of kidnappings on Oct 7, showing Ms Argamani crying as she is taken away on a motorbike into Gaza . The footage of Ms Argamani circulated widely and she became a symbol of the Israeli hostages, until Israeli special forces rescued her and three other hostages in an operation in 2024. Sakr also took part in the kidnapping of Avinatan Or, who was released in a hostage deal after 738 days of captivity in Gaza.
Ms Argamani and Mr Or were a couple when they were kidnapped from Gaza but later broke up after they were reunited. Israel is targeting anyone in Gaza who took part in the Oct 7 massacre and kidnappings. The IDF told The Telegraph that Israel had killed “hundreds” of terror operatives in Gaza since the ceasefire took effect last October, including members of terror groups who posed an immediate danger and those who took part in the Oct 7 attack.
Left out here: Drops what it reported before
The Telegraph gives only the army's claim that Israel has killed 'hundreds' of terror operatives since the ceasefire. It drops its own earlier report that Israel has killed more than 1,000 further Palestinians in that period, according to the Gaza health ministry. Without it a reader believes everyone Israel has killed since the ceasefire was a fighter.
How we know
- The Telegraph wrote earlier“Israel has killed more than 1,000 further Palestinians in air strikes targeting alleged Hamas activity, according to the Gaza health ministry”Directors of Gaza film ‘NAZA’ face losing Israeli citizenship (opens in a new tab)
- On the recordNewsCord tracked Gaza coverage across major outlets and found Western mainstream output fell by about three quarters after the October 2025 ceasefire was declared, while Israeli attacks and the recorded Palestinian death toll continued.newscord.org (opens in a new tab)
The IDF also killed Adi Adli Abd Al-Aaser, a sniper in Hamas’s military wing , on Sunday, saying that he had “advanced attacks” against Israeli troops and civilians and “operated to restore” Hamas’s capabilities “in systematic violation of the ceasefire”. “The terrorist was eliminated in an aerial strike in order to remove the threat. Prior to the strike, steps were taken to mitigate harm to civilians, including the use of precise munitions and aerial surveillance,” the army said.
Last week, the IDF assassinated Muhammad Hamad Muhammad Gabain, a commander in Hamas’s military wing, who was involved in holding a number of Israeli hostages. Israel Katz, the defence minister , claimed last week that Hamas was planning to kidnap Israeli soldiers in Gaza, warning that such a move would trigger a major Israeli retaliation. He said: “If one Israeli soldier or civilian is abducted, the entire city of Gaza, with its homes and terror towers, will be evacuated south of its one million residents, as we did in Gideon’s Chariots II [military offensive] , and it will be treated in the same way Rafah, Beit Hanoun and 70 per cent of the Gaza Strip were treated, until he is returned.”
In an interview with Business Insider , which, like The Telegraph, is owned by Axel Springer, Ms Argamani said her kidnapping had made her even more of an optimist. She said: “I lost a lot of people. I saw in my own eyes hell, being in tunnels, looking in Hamas’s eyes. But I choose every day to have another part of my life, to look forward, to go to work, and not let the grief become my identity.”
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