Earlier this month, Israel took out a terrorist during an air raid involved in the kidnapping of an Israeli man on October 7, 2023, the authorities said on Tuesday.
The strike, which took place in Gaza on 10 August, killed Jihad Kamal Salem Najjar, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Shin Bet, the internal security agency of Israel, announced.
“A small part of my closure happened today. Thanks to the IDF, the Shin Bet and everyone who participated in the elimination of one of the terrorists who kidnapped me on 7 October,” said Yarden Bibas in a statement from hostages and the missing family forum. “Thanks to you, he will not be able to harm anyone else.
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Israel said that Jihad Kamal Salem Najjar, a terrorist who was assumed to be involved in the attack of 7 October 2023 on Israelis, was killed in air strikes. (Israel Defense Forces)
“Please take care of yourself, heroes. I am waiting for full ending with the return of my friends David and Ariel, and the remaining 48 hostages,” he added.
Najjar was involved in the invasion of the Kibbutz Nir Oz, one of the most difficult affected during the deadly attacks of 7 October, where Bibas was abducted. The Bibas family was abducted separately and was eventually killed in captivity.
He spent 480 days as a hostage before he was released in January. His wife, Shiri, and their two young children, Ariel and Kfir, were killed before their bodies were brought back to Israel.
While he was in captivity, Bibas was forced to make a hostage in which he was seen, breaking off when Hamas claimed that his wife and children had been killed.
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Jihad Kamal Salem Najjar is seen alongside hostages. (Israeli defense groups)
Hamas often uses hostage videos as part of what the IDF calls ‘psychological terror’.
In his release, the Bibas family said that “a quarter of our hearts returned to us after 15 long months. … Yarden has returned, but the house remains incomplete.”
In the aftermath of Hamas’ attack, the Bibas family became a symbol of the cruelty of the terror group. Video images of Shiri Bibas who held her two red -haired children in her arms became viral all over the world.
Pictures of the Bibas Family and Oded Lifshitz, 84, Who Were Kidnapped Duration The Deadly Oct. 7, 2023 Attack by Hamas and then Killed, are displayed next to candles in the Dining Room in Kibbutz Nir Oz, after their bodies were handed over to Israel Under the Terms of a Ceasefire Between and Israel, in the day of lifshitz, Israitz, Israitz, Israëtz,, Israite, isbanzëzëzëzëhite, isbuhite, isban, isbutz 2025. (Reuters/Amir Cohen)
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In April, Israel said that the Mohammed Hassan Mohammed Awad had killed, a senior commander in the Palestinian Mujahideen -terrorist organization and he helped in leading “different” attacks on the Nir Oz Kibbutz.
