Oct. 7 participant arrested after getting permit to enter Israeli-held part of Gaza as truck driver

By Emanuel Fabian

You will receive email alerts from this author. Manage alert preferences on your profile page

You will no longer receive email alerts from this author. Manage alert preferences on your profile page

7 August 2026, 1:21 pm

Edit

Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

Trucks and humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip seen at the Kerem Shalom Crossing, on the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip, May 29, 2025. (Flash90)

A Palestinian terrorist who invaded Israel during the October 7, 2023, onslaught was captured by the IDF earlier this week while working as a truck driver who arrived in the Israeli-held portion of the Gaza Strip to collect goods, according to security sources.

The member of Hamas’s elite Nukhba Force had requested a permit to deliver private sector goods inside the Strip, and was granted one by the Shin Bet security agency.

Upon arriving at the Gazan side of the Kerem Shalom Crossing on Wednesday to collect the goods, Israeli troops apprehended him, the sources say.

He was then taken to be questioned by the Shin Bet.