PNN – Saif al-Islam Gaddafi’s political team confirmed his death and revealed more details about it.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, citing Sky News, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi’s political team, in a statement confirming the news of his death, described the incident as a horrific crime and called for the formation of an independent international fact-finding committee to identify the perpetrators and those who ordered it.
The statement reads: This incident occurred on Tuesday afternoon, February 3, 2026, following a treacherous and cowardly assassination operation by criminal hands at his residence in the city of Al-Zintan. The political team holds the Libyan judiciary, the international community, the United Nations, and human rights institutions accountable for their legal and moral responsibilities.
Part of the statement describing the incident reads: Four armed and masked men stormed his residence and in a desperate attempt to destroy the evidence of the crime, they first cut off the CCTV cameras to the point where Saif al-Islam Gaddafi had engaged in direct combat with the attackers before being killed. The assassination of an influential national figure of the level of Saif al-Islam is, in fact, the assassination of the chances of peace and stability in Libya.
Referring to his political aspirations, the statement said: He was killed in the path of the national reform project and the dream of having a united and prosperous Libya that would have room for all its children, without excluding any of the parties.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi’s political team concluded by emphasizing the need to identify the planners of this assassination, warning that this crime will not go unpunished and that all those involved in its planning and execution will be punished.
It is worth noting that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, who was imprisoned for a long time after the fall of his father’s regime in 2011, returned to the Libyan political scene in recent years and officially ran for president in 2021, but the election was canceled at the last moment.
He is a graduate of the London School of Economics and, before the events of 2011, was known as the leader of Libya’s internal reform movement, and in 2006, he called for the adoption of a permanent constitution for the country.