The IDF and the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) on Saturday killed a terrorist leader who was “directly involved” in the kidnapping of Shiri Bibas and her children, Kfir and Ariel, from Kibbutz Nir Oz and their subsequent murder in Gaza, the defense bodies announced in a joint statement.

Asaad Abu Sharia, slain in Gaza City, was the head of the Mujahideen Brigades (“Kataeb al-Mujahideen”).

He was “one of the ringleaders of the brutal massacre [the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attack] and was also involved in the abduction of the late couple Gadi Haggai and Judy Lynn Weinstein, as well as in the kidnapping and murder of [Thai national] Nattapong Pinta , and another foreign national who is still being held [in Gaza],” the statement continued.

During the war in Gaza, Abu Sharia was respon

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