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Wednesday, August 13, 2025
IDF says it killed elite Hamas Nukhba member who took part in Oct. 7 assault
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A member of Hamas’s elite Nukhba Force who invaded Israel during the October 7 onslaught and participated in the kidnapping of three soldiers was killed in a strike in the Gaza Strip last week, the military announces.
Abdullah Saeed Abd al-Baqin served as the deputy commander of the Nukhba company in Hamas’s Central Jabalia Battalion, according to the military.
On October 7, 2023, Baqin invaded Israel and attacked an army base next to the Erez Crossing that serves the Coordination and Liaison Administration to the Gaza Strip, a unit that is part of the Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories.
Baqin was involved in the abduction of soldiers Ron Sherman, Nik Beizer and Tamir Nimrodi from the base, the IDF says. The bodies of Sherman and Beizer were recovered by the military from north Gaza after they were killed in captivity as a result of an Israeli strike. Nimrodi remains held in the Strip.
The IDF adds that during the war, Baqin was involved in advancing numerous attacks against troops operating in Gaza. A strike directed by the 215th Artillery Regiment on August 7 killed him, according to the IDF.
צה״ל ושב״כ ממשיכים לחסל מחבלי נח'בה בארגון הטרור חמאס: חוסל מחבל אשר לקח חלק בחטיפתם של החיילים רון שרמן ז"ל, ניק בייזר ז"ל ותמיר נמרודי
צה"ל ושב"כ, בהובלת פיקוד הדרום, תקפו וחיסלו בהכוונת חטיבת האש 215, ב-7 באוגוסט 2025, את המחבל עבדאללה סעיד עבד אלבגין, ששימש כסגן מפקד פלוגת… pic.twitter.com/nOSSWJHvNP
— צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) August 13, 2025
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