Overview
- Adviser Abdullah Othman Abdurrahim said four gunmen disabled surveillance cameras, stormed Seif al-Islam Gaddafi’s residence, and executed him.
- Local media placed the incident south of Zenten in western Libya, though no independent verification or official confirmation has been issued.
- Cousin Hamid Kadhafi described him as having “fallen as a martyr,” and former regime spokesman Moussa Ibrahim condemned the killing after saying he spoke with him two days earlier.
- The 53-year-old son of Muammar Gaddafi was wanted by the ICC, detained in Zenten after 2011, sentenced to death in 2015, later amnestied, and he registered a 2021 presidential bid.
- Analysts warned the reported killing could recast him as a martyr and shift electoral calculations in a country split between Tripoli’s UN-recognized government and an eastern administration aligned with Khalifa Haftar.