A Hamas terrorist who took part in the abduction and murder of Israeli hostage Shani Louk during the October 7 massacre has been killed in an airstrike.
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The killing of Tamer Muhammad Ibrahim al-Sabbagh in northern Gaza’s Jabalia on Monday marks the final member of the Hamas cell that was seen abducting Louk on October 7, 2023, with three others killed earlier in the conflict and one captured by Israeli forces.
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Infamous photos taken by AP freelance photographer Ali Mahmud showed a half-naked woman, later identified as the German-Israeli Louk, lying unconscious face-down in the back of a pickup truck in Gaza.
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Footage spread of her being paraded through the streets of Gaza by a group of armed men, becoming one of the symbols for Hamas' atrocities and raising concern over her welfare.
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The 22-year-old tattoo artist was kidnapped from the Nova music festival near Re’im and died in the Gaza Strip.
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In late October 2023, forensic examiners confirmed Louk's death after they identified a piece of her skull.
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In May 2024, IDF soldiers operating in Gaza located Louk’s remains and returned her to Israel for burial.
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According to the IDF, al-Sabbagh had carried out advanced attacks on Israeli troops and civilians and acted to restore Hamas’s capabilities, 'in systematic violation of the ceasefire'.
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The killing of Tamer Muhammad Ibrahim al-Sabbagh in northern Gaza’s Jabalia on Monday marks the final member of the Hamas cell that was seen abducting Louk on October 7, 2023, with three others killed earlier in the conflict and one captured by Israeli forces
Shani Louk was kidnapped from the Nova music festival near Re’im and died in the Gaza Strip
In May 2024, IDF soldiers operating in Gaza located Louk’s remains and returned her to Israel for burial
'The terrorist was eliminated in order to remove the threat he posed,' the IDF said.
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For months Louk’s family tried to get information out of Gaza, leveraging all their contacts to find a man in the Palestinian enclave to search for her and deliver details of her whereabouts and condition.
But their hopes were dashed when IDF soldiers discovered human remains that they believed belonged to Louk in a nighttime raid on a location in Gaza in May 2024.
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Louk’s father, Nissim, said that a few days later, he knew his daughter had been lost for sure when an Israeli police officer delivered the envelope containing her necklace, earrings, nose and lip piercings, along with documents confirming her death.
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Her remains were hidden in a ten-metre-deep tunnel beneath a house in northern Gaza, alongside the bodies of three other hostages: Itzhak Gelerenter, Amit Buskila, and Ron Benjamin.
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'I was relieved, because we didn’t know where she was,' Nissim said during an interview with i24 News following the return of her body.
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'Maybe they threw her into a well or maybe she’s buried somewhere.'
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He continued: 'Yesterday we got all the answers and we closed this loop.
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We are happy that now she will have her own place next to us, and we can go there whenever we want, and she can rest.
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Nissim had previously told Israeli media that his daughter’s body was very well-preserved because it had been kept in a 'deep and very cold tunnel'.
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Speaking to the Daily Mail, Ricarda, Louk’s mother, said: 'It is like closing a circle.
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Her spirit is free already half a year, but now her body is back home and can rest in peace.'
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Seven months on from the tragedy, Louk was laid to rest in the town of Srigim, with her family inviting the public to attend the farewell.
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In her last moments she called her sister to tell her 'everything will be okay', her father told those gathered at her funeral.
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Nissim spoke emotionally at the gathering for his child: 'As a father I failed to protect you.
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According to the IDF, the other terrorists involved in the kidnapping of Louk were Attiya Daour, killed on August 20, 2025, Basel Cheleh, killed on December 6, 2023, Mustafa Shaheen, killed on October 10, 2023, and Mustafa Ala Khatib, who has been captured by Israeli forces.
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In September, Israel announced it had tracked down and killed the Hamas terrorist suspected of kidnapping hostages Noa Argamani and Avinatan Or during the October 7 attacks.
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Saher Nidal Latfi Sakr supplied weapons to Hamas during the war and rode the motorbike used to kidnap Ms Argamani from the Nova music festival and take them into Gaza in 2023.
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The terrorist was killed by an airstrike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, in an operation carried out by Israel Police's Gideonim Unit 33.
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The IDF said Sakr was affiliated with 'global jihadist organisations' and was involved in attacks on troops and Israeli civilians.
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It said in a statement: 'Recently, Sakr advanced attacks targeting Israeli civilians and IDF troops.
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He was eliminated in order to remove the threat he posed.
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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 was seen seated on the back of a motorcycle behind her Hamas captor, screaming 'don’t kill me' and stretching her arms out toward her boyfriend Mr 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.
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Israel has tracked down and killed the Hamas terrorist suspected of kidnapping Israeli hostage Noa Argamani during the October 7, 2023 attacks
Footage of Ms 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 33
Sakr 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.
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Footage released by the Israeli military, purportedly showing the moment of his death, shows the terrorist walking by a building before an enormous explosion.
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His remains can be seen on the pavement as massive plumes of smoke cascade into the air.
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Argamani, who is of Chinese heritage, was rescued from Gaza on June 8, 2024, after 246 days in captivity.
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As a hostage, she witnessed a fellow captive executed in front of her, was nearly killed in an airstrike, was forcibly starved and worried each day that her terminally ill mother, Liora, had died in Israel.
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Doctors since said it was a 'miracle' Argamani survived as she was given no medical attention.
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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.
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Trump on Sunday endorsed embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu late in his reelection campaign, a coveted boost because of Trump's popularity but one that the American had withheld for months as the vote neared and the leaders' strategies in the Middle East diverged.
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Trump said in a post on social media that Netanyahu 'has been a Great Warrior Prime Minister, and an even greater Partner for Peace in combatting the Islamic Republic of Iran'.
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Israelis are set to vote October 27, in the first national elections since Hamas attacked Israel.
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